Iran: Top rights expert welcomes Swedish verdict in mass executions case

The development came after Hamid Nouri – a former Iranian prosecutor and prison officer – was arrested at a Stockholm airport in 2019.

He was later charged with war crimes and the mass murder of detainees in Iran in 1988, in line with an order issued by the then Supreme Leader of Iran, Ayatollah Khomeini.

Iranian authorities have denied the summary executions and enforced disappearances at the heart of the case, which civil society…