“Hamid Noury, who has been in illegal detention in Sweden since 2019, is free and will return to the country in a few hours,” Kazem Gharibabadi, head of Iran’s High Council for Human Rights, said in a post on social media platform X.
Gharibabadi said the release of Noury was thanks to efforts led by late Iranian foreign minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, who died in a helicopter crash alongside president Ebrahim Raisi in May.
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His case relates to the killing of at least 5,000 prisoners across Iran to avenge attacks carried out by the rebel People’s Mujahedin of Iran (MEK) at the end of the Iran-Iraq war of 1980-88.
Kristersson added: “It has been clear all along that the operation would require some difficult decisions. Now we have made those decisions.”
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