A Swedish Appeals Court has upheld the life sentence of Hamid Noury, a former assistant prosecutor at Iran’s Gohardasht prison during the 1988 massacre of political prisoners.
In a statement, hundreds of civil and political activists described the December 19 ruling as a major victory for justice in Iran.
Relations between Stockholm and Tehran have been tense since 2019, when Noury was arrested.
At least two Swedish citizens – Ahmadreza Djalali and Johan Floderus – are currently jailed in Iran on spurious charges.
Western governments and rights groups have repeatedly accused the Islamic Republic of taking dual and foreign nationals hostage for the sole purpose of using them in prisoner swaps or as a bargaining chip in international negotiations.
The 1988 executions were ordered by the then supreme leader of the Islamic Republic, Ruhollah Khomeini.
The London-based human rights group Amnesty International estimates that 4,500 people were killed, while the opposition Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) puts the number at 30,000.
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