The Iranian judicial authority on Sunday confirmed the death sentence of an Iranian-Swedish dissident, who has been detained in Iran since 2020, where he was convicted of “terrorism”.
Habib Chaab’s death sentence for corruption in the country, leading a rebel group and masterminding and conducting numerous terrorist operations has been approved by the Supreme Court. [do Irão]”, said the agency Mizan Online, information body of the Iranian judiciary.
The leader of the Arab Movement for the Liberation of Ahvaz (ASMLA), considered a terrorist group by Iranian authorities, Chaab, 50, disappeared in October 2020 after going to Istanbul, before reappearing months later, detained in Iran.
Tried since January 2022 for “terrorism” and especially for the “spreading of corruption on earth”, the Iranian judiciary announced the death sentence on December 6, according to the local press.
In November 2020, Iranian television broadcast a video of Habib Chaab taking on a terrorist attack targeting a military parade in September 2018, in Ahvaz, the capital of Khuzestan province.
“Chaab’s sentence to death is confirmed and final,” Mizan Online reported.
Sweden, of which he is a national, has taken steps to provide him with consular assistance, but without practical results, as Iran does not recognize dual nationality.
This Sunday, Sweden regarded the death sentence confirmed by the Iranian judiciary as inhumane and stressed that it expected more clarity in the ruling from Iran’s judicial authorities.
“The death penalty is an inhumane and irreversible punishment and Sweden, like the rest of the EU [União Europeia]condemns its application in all circumstances,” Swedish Foreign Minister Tobias Billstrom told the Agence France-Presse (AFP).
On Monday, Iranian justice sentenced to death six men accused of being part of the ASMLA, accusing them of “following the orders of their European leaders, such as Habib Nabgan and Habib Chaab”.
Tehran sparked international outrage after the January execution of a former British-Iranian army officer Alireza Akbari, convicted of espionage.
On March 1, Germany expelled two Iranian diplomats stationed in Berlin in protest at the death sentence of Iranian-German dissident Jamshid Sharmahd, aged 67, accused of participating in an attack on a mosque in Shiraz, southern Iran. which killed 14 people in April 2008.
At least 16 Western passport holders, including six French nationals, are being held in Iran. Most of them have dual citizenship, but Iran does not recognize this status.
Source: DN
