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Iranian gets life in prison in Sweden for 1980s crimes

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS, Jul 14, 2022 2:27 PM - REPORT AN ERROR

An Iranian citizen was Thursday sentenced to life imprisonment by a Swedish court after being convicted of committing grave war crimes and murder during the final phase of the Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s.

The Stockholm District Court that said Hamid Noury took part in severe atrocities in July-August 1988 while working as an assistant to the deputy prosecutor at the Gohardasht prison outside the Iranian city of Karaj.

A life sentence in Sweden generally means a minimum of 20 to 25 years in prison, but it could be extended. If he is eventually released, Noury will be expelled from Sweden. Noury can appeal the verdict.

Noury was arrested in November 2019 when he arrived in Stockholm and has been in custody since then.

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