Sweden Hands Life Sentence to ex-Iranian Official over 1988 Purge

15/07/2022

A former Iranian official has been sentenced to life in prison by a Swedish court after being convicted of committing grave war crimes and murder during the final phase of the Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s.

The Stockholm District Court on Thursday said that Hamid Noury took part in severe atrocities in July-August 1988 while working as an assistant to the deputy prosecutor at the Gohardasht prison outside the Iranian city of Karaj.

The acts were deemed as a serious crime against international law, the court said.

Iran’s foreign ministry dismissed the verdict as “political.”

Tehran “strongly condemns this political statement, which consists of making unfounded and fabricated accusations against Iran and its judicial system, along with the life sentence against Hamid Noury,” Iran’s foreign ministry said in a statement.

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