(Politico) Belgium’s highest court on Thursday suspended a controversial treaty on prisoner exchanges which could allow an Iranian diplomat convicted of terrorism in Belgium to be sent back to Tehran.
“Belgium knows or must know that Iran will not effectively execute the sentence,” the court said in a press release.
After suspending the treaty, the Constitutional Court will now have to come to a final decision on whether to cancel the treaty “within three months.”
Iranian diplomat Assadollah Assadi was sentenced to 20 years in prison by a criminal court in Antwerp in February 2021 for plotting a bomb attack against a rally organized by Iranian dissidents near Paris.
