Trial of Hamid Nouri

Trial of Hamid Nouri
Nouri at trial in Sweden
CourtStockholm District Court
StartedAugust 2021
DecidedMay 2022
VerdictLife in prison
Demonstration in front of the district court in Stockholm August 11, 2021.

The trial of Hamid Nouri, an Iranian official detained in 2019 in Sweden, took place in 2022. Nouri was found guilty of being a key figure in the 1988 executions of Iranian political prisoners, where according to different estimates between 2,800 to 30,000 Iranians were massacred.[1][2] In early 2021 charges of murder and war crimes were filed against the former Iranian prosecutor, where Nouri was accused of "torture and inhuman treatment."[3][4][5] The trial constituted the first time someone has been charged in relation to the 1988 massacre of political prisoners.[6] Nouri was charged with more than 100 murders and "a serious crime against international law", and was expected to provide evidence implicating Ebrahim Raisi, president of Iran, at the time of the trial.[7]

Nouri was sentenced to life in prison and expulsion with a permanent bar from re-entering Sweden,[8] and ordered to pay damages amounting to 1,2 million SEK.[9]

Following an appeal, the Svea Court of Appeal officially upheld Nouri's life sentence in December 2023;[10] Ebrahim Raisi was also involved in the case as a member of the "Death Commissions in Tehran".[10][11][12]

Iran and Sweden carried out a prisoner swap on 15 June 2024 and Nouri was exchanged for a European Union diplomat Johan Floderus and another man named Saeed Azizi.[13]

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  2. ^ Lamb, Christina (4 February 2001). "Khomeini fatwa 'led to killing of 30,000 in Iran'". The Daily Telegraph. Archived from the original on 1 July 2017. Retrieved 23 June 2017.
  3. ^ "Sweden's landmark war crimes trial of Hamid Nouri wraps up ahead of jury verdict". The National News. 5 May 2022.
  4. ^ "Hamid Nouri: How Sweden arrested a suspected Iranian war criminal". BBC News. 4 September 2021. Retrieved 8 November 2021.
  5. ^ "Hamid Nouri Trial Opens in Stockholm". IranWire | خانه. Retrieved 8 November 2021.
  6. ^ "Sweden Jails Iranian Prosecutor Implicated In Mass Execution In Prisons".
  7. ^ "Hamid Nouri: Prison massacre accused to give evidence at landmark trial in Sweden". Euronews. 23 November 2021.
  8. ^ , 189 (Stockholms tingsrätt 2022-07-14).
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  9. ^ "Iransk medborgare döms till livstids fängelse för avrättningar av politiska fångar i Iran 1988". 14 July 2022.
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  13. ^ Gambrel, Jon, Associated Press (15 June 2024). "Sweden frees an Iranian man convicted over 1988 mass executions in exchange for 2 men held by Iran". ABC News. Retrieved 15 June 2024.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)