Iran said on Monday it would continue efforts to gain the release of a former Iranian official sentenced in Sweden to life in prison for his part in a mass execution of political prisoners in Iran.
“This unjust and outrageous ruling does not end Iran’s diplomatic efforts to repatriate and free this Iranian citizen and we will use all legal and available means,” Foreign Ministry spokesperson Nasser Kanaani said, without specifying.
Last Tuesday, a Swedish appeals court upheld the guilty verdict and life sentence for murder and serious crimes against international law for the former official Hamid Noury.
“We seriously object to the verdict and to what has taken place during this citizen’s long period of detention… and his basic rights have not been respected in Sweden’s prisons,” Kanaani told a weekly news conference. “We hope Sweden will take serious actions to compensate for its errors.”
Earlier in December, Iran began the trial of a Swedish national, Johan Floderus, empl
