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A Swedish court has sentenced a former Iranian prison official to life in prison for crimes committed during a 1988 purge of dissidents in Iran.
Hamid Nouri, 61, was convicted of a “serious crime against international law” and “murder,” the Stockholm District Court said in a statement on July 14.
In Sweden, a life sentence generally means a minimum of 20 to 25 years in prison, but the sentence can be extended.
Nouri would be deported from Sweden if he was ever released from prison.
The court said Nouri participated “in the executions of many political prisoners in Iran in the summer of 1988” and had “the role of assistant deputy prosecutor” at Gohardasht prison in Karaj, Iran, “together and in cooperation with others was involved in executions”.
“The investigations showed that the accused jointly and in cooperation with others participated in the commission of criminal offenses”, said the court. “Under a pseudonym and in the role of assistant to the deputy prosecutor, [Noury] selected the prisoners, brought them to the commission and accompanied them to the place of execution”.
The trial, which has been ongoing since August 2021, has strained relations between Sweden and Iran, raising concerns about reprisals against Western prisoners held by the Islamic Republic of Iran. Two Swedish-Iranian citizens are actually sentenced to death.
During the nine months of hearings, Noury refuted the testimony of former inmates, claiming to have been on leave during the period in question and claiming to have worked at another prison. Noury described the accusations as a conspiracy by the opposition group Mujahedin (MEK) to discredit the regime in Tehran./Rel
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