Tehran slams Sweden over 'political' verdict against ex-official

Already holding two Swedish nationals on death row, Iran warned that the verdict by a Stockholm court could harm bilateral ties.
Hamid Nouri
People react outside Stockholm District Court in Stockholm, Sweden, on July 14, 2022, after the life sentence of the war crime trial against Hamid Nouri. A Swedish court gave a life sentence to former Iranian prison official for crimes committed during a 1988 purge of dissidents, in the first trial related to the mass executions. - CHRIS ANDERSON/TT NEWS AGENCY/AFP via Getty Images
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Iran "strongly condemned" a Swedish court's life sentence for a former Iranian official involved in the deaths of thousands of political prisoners in the 1980s.

Earlier on Thursday, Stockholm's district court found Hamid Nouri guilty of "murder" and "serious crimes against international law."

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