In the second trial, after two court sessions, Helmut Hofer was again found guilty and condemned to death.

BBC: Iranian press report on condemned German

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Hofer introduced himself as an importer and exporter of dried fruit and nuts and said that he had a trading company in Khorasan.

BBC: Iranian press report on condemned German

After preliminary investigations, the court judge issued an order for the temporary detention of Hofer and Vahideh Q, and the two were imprisoned.

BBC: Iranian press report on condemned German

The case of Hofer and Vahideh Q, who were charged with having illicit sexual relations, was then sent to the public court based in Mehrabad Airport.

BBC: Iranian press report on condemned German

Days later, an appeal court upheld the death sentence against Helmut Hofer, a German businessman arrested a year ago for having an affair with an Iranian Muslim woman.

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On the basis of the accusations, last Autumn, security officers patrolling the foreign flights terminal of the airport noticed that a 26-year-old Iranian girl was waiting to welcome a 50-year-old German passenger (that is, Hofer).

BBC: Iranian press report on condemned German

The officers took Hofer and the girl to the security office of the airport and in the course of the interrogation, the girl said that she had got to know Helmut Hofer several months earlier at a hotel in Mashhad.

BBC: Iranian press report on condemned German