Iran criticizes Sweden’s trial against Iranian citizens who “stand up to MKO terrorists”
Yusef Jalali
Press TV, Tehran
Illegal and unfair; Experts refer to Sweden’s trial of Hamid Nouri, a former Iranian justice official, who has been detained in Sweden for the past two years for alleged abuses of prisoners in 1988.
Here in Iran, this group of legal experts has gathered to investigate the violations of rights Sweden has committed against Hamid Nouri for prosecuting him without solid evidence. The lawsuit was filed by members of the Mujahedin Khalq organization, or MKO, a formidable terrorist group responsible for most of the killings of Iranian people and officials since the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
The terrorist group claims that Nouri was involved in the execution and torture of its members in 1988. The Swedish prosecutor has charged Nouri with war crimes and crimes against humanity, something that the former Iranian official dismisses as imaginary.
Swedish prosecutors have now requested the maximum sentence of life imprisonment for Nouri. The final verdict is scheduled for July 14.
Nouri was arrested on arrival in Sweden at Stockholm Airport in 2019 and was immediately detained. Nouri, now 61, has been in solitary confinement for more than two years and his family has not been allowed to visit him in prison.
People here say that Sweden’s trial against Nouri follows unfounded accusations from a terrorist organization and therefore lacks a legal basis. They asked Sweden to release the Iranian citizen; otherwise, they say, it can be interpreted as the Swedish legal system being governed by the infamous terrorist group MKO.