12. mars 2023 11:21 – Updated March 12, 2023 11:38 am
Iran’s Supreme Court maintains that Swedish-Iranian Habib Chaab should be sentenced to death after he was found guilty of terrorism.
This is reported by several news agencies on Sunday with reference to the Iranian website Emtedad.
Chaab is a political activist and former leader of an Arab-Iranian separatist group with the abbreviation ASMLA.
He has lived in exile in Sweden for a number of years and is both a Swedish and an Iranian citizen. In October 2020, he was abducted during a visit to Turkey by what was probably Iranian intelligence.
A month later, he was featured on state Iranian television. He then claimed responsibility for an attack on a military parade in the city of Ahvaz in September 2018 in which 29 people were killed.
Such public confessions are constantly used by Iran, but they are not trusted, and human rights organizations believe they were forced out with torture.
Chaab is the second Swedish-Iranian who has been sentenced to death in Iran.
In 2016, Ahmadreza Djalali, a former researcher in disaster medicine at the Karolinska Institutet outside Stockholm, was arrested when he visited Iran to give a lecture.
He is accused of collaborating with Israeli intelligence. The execution has been put on hold until further notice.
