(AFP) An exiled Iranian opposition group and activists on Saturday slammed as shameful Sweden’s freeing in an apparent swap for two Swedes of a former Iranian official jailed over his role in the mass executions of dissidents in 1988.
Hamid Noury, a former Iranian prison official, had been convicted and jailed in Sweden under the principle of universal jurisdiction which allows states to try crimes carried out in other countries. It remains the only such case concerning atrocities in Iran.
The freeing of Noury is “shameful and unjustifiable” and “an affront to the Swedish judiciary,” said the National Council of Resistance of Iran, the political wing of the People’s Mujahedin (PMOI/MEK), outlawed in Iran, whose members accounted for the vast majority of the victims of the prison massacre.
