DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran and Sweden concurred Saturday to a detainee swap, releasing Hamid Nouri, founded guilty of war criminal activities by Sweden over mass 1988 executions in the Islamic Republic, in exchange for 2 guys held by Tehran.
Iran launched Johan Floderus, a Swede who had actually been working for the European Union’s diplomatic corps, in addition to a male recognized as Saeed Azizi by Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson.
They “are now on an airplane home to Sweden, and will quickly be reunited with their households,” Kristersson composed on the social platform X.
Oman moderated the swap, the state-run Oman News Firm reported. Iranian state tv reported Nouri was currently released and would be heading back to Tehran.
In 2022, the Stockholm District Court sentenced Nouri to life in jail over his function in the executions. It recognized Nouri as an assistant to the deputy district attorney at the Gohardasht jail outside the Iranian city of Karaj.