the justice of iranian regime confirmed this Sunday the death sentence of a Swedish-Iranian dissident for “terrorism”more than two years since his disappearance at an airport in Turkey, as reported by the judicial website Mizan Online.
Habib Farajollah Chaabwho was convicted on charges of “corruption on earth” and forming a rebel group, was sentenced to death on 6 December.
On Sunday it was confirmed that the court had upheld the sentence. “The court concludes that the death sentence of (Farayolá) Chaab is confirmed, final and definitive”, indicated this Sunday the Mizan agency, of the Judiciary.
“The Supreme Court approved the death sentence of Habib Farajollah Chaab, accused of corruption on earth through the formation, management and leadership of a rebel group called Harakat al-Nidaland the design and execution of numerous terrorist operations in the Khuzestan province,” reported Mizan Online.
Chaab has been held in Iran since October 2020. He had disappeared during a visit to Turkey and was later confirmed by the regime to be held in its jails. Finally, he was tried in Tehran, which does not recognize dual nationality.
Iran has accused Harakat al-Nidal of “cooperation with other terror groups,” including in a 2018 attack on a military parade in Ahvaz, in the southwestern region of Khuzestan, which authorities say killed 25 people and injured nearly 250. .
The Ahvaz attack was committed during a military parade organized on the occasion of the 38th anniversary of the start of the war between Iraq and Iran (1980-88). four extremists They opened fire with Kalashnikov rifles. from behind the authorities’ rostrum, killing 25 people, including soldiers and civilians, including women and children, and injuring another 60.
Chaab is the latest person to be sentenced to death after being found guilty of belonging to Harakat al-Nidal, which Tehran describes as a “terrorist group”. Last week, a court in Ahvaz sentenced six men to death for attacks who had “carried out the orders of their European leaders”. They were found guilty of “armed operations” between 2017 and 2019 in which four people were killed, including a soldier and two members of the Iranian Basij paramilitary force.
The Islamic Republic of Iran executes more people each year than any other nation except China, according to rights groups including Amnesty International.
Last month, the Iranian judiciary sentenced to death a Kurdish militant who had been convicted of killing a police officer, a move condemned by human rights groups who labeled him a political prisoner.
(With information from AFP and EFE)
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