Iran and Sweden have agreed to release two Swedish nationals, including a European official held in Tehran for over two years, in exchange for an Iranian convicted of war crimes over the mass killing of Iranian prisoners in 1988.
Sweden’s Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson tweeted Saturday that Swedish citizens Johan Floderus and Saeed Azizi were “released after being imprisoned without reason by Iran.” “The Swedish government has worked intensively for them to be released,” he continued. “Today, they will land on Swedish soil and be reunited with their families and loved ones. Welcome home!”confirmed the release of Hamid Nouri, writing on social media that he would arrive in Iran in the coming hours and saying that he had been held “illegally” in Sweden.
The freed prisoners were transferred from Tehran and Stockholm to Oman, which mediated the deal, on Saturday ahead of their return to their respective countries, Oman’s Foreign MinistryNouri was arrested in Sweden in 2019 and later convicted of war crimes over the mass execution of political prisoners in Iran in 1988, under the principle of, a legal principle that some crimes are so grave that territorial restraints on prosecutions shouldn’t apply.
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