Final verdict on Belgium-Iran prisoner swap treaty could free Belgian aid worker

Belgium’s top court has given a conditional green light to a controversial prisoner swap treaty with Iran. 

The legislation was passed in July last year in an effort to secure the release of Belgian aid worker Olivier Vandecasteele, imprisoned in Iran on espionage charges Belgium says are fabricated. However, the treaty was slammed by some parliamentarians, Iranian dissidents, and critics of the regime in Tehran, who feared it would lead to the release of Assadollah Assadi — an…