Swedish court violates principles of Intl law in Nouri’s case

A Swedish court docket on Thursday sentenced the Iranian citizen to existence in jail. 

Hamid Nouri, who was arrested on arrival at the Stockholm Airport in November 2019, has been held in solitary confinement for in excess of two yrs.

He has vehemently turned down allegations leveled towards him at the behest of the MEK terrorist team.

Masoumifar wrote in a Swedish newspaper that the Swedish authorized technique has violated the most basic rules of worldwide regulation, contacting the verdict “unfounded and political.”

Pointing to some failures in making use of authorized strategies in the situation of Hamid Nouri these as a extensive investigation by the prosecutor, prosecuting the circumstance at the alleged crime scene, allowing witnesses launched by the defendant to testify in the court, and lack of contradictions in the witnesses’ testimonies, Masoumifar named the verdict “completely invalid” through a piece in the Swedish Expressen newspaper, in accordance to Habilian.

Referring to the requirement of the existence of an intercontinental criminal offense to exercising worldwide jurisdiction, Ahmad Masoumifar questioned the jurisdiction of the Swedish Court’s verdict in the case of the Iranian citizen Hamid Nouri.

“In addition, all witnesses who were being supplied the flooring in the court docket hearings are users of the Mujahedin-e Khalq terrorist group. The MEK experienced been designated a terrorist group by the US, Canada, and the European Union,” stated the Iranian ambassador to Stockholm.

Referring to the earlier warnings of Iranian associates to the Swedish authorities to consider authorized actions without having any political intentions, Ahmad Masoumifar asserted that the Iranian individuals believe that the actions taken by the Swedish judiciary are hostile and in favor of terrorists and enemies of the Iranian country.

In the ultimate element of his piece, Masoumifar wrote that Iran will not tolerate interference in nationwide affairs or actions that threaten the country’s sovereignty, independence, and national passions.

On Thursday, Iran’s foreign ministry spokesman Nasser Kan’ani rejected the Swedish court’s verdict as “unacceptable”, which he explained was primarily based on unfounded allegations created by the MEK terrorist group. 

Kan’ani strongly condemned the “politicized verdict” based mostly on “baseless and fabricated” allegations from Iran, its judiciary process, and Hamid Nouri. 

Iranian foreign ministry summoned Sweden’s cost d’affaires in protest at a Swedish court’s sentencing of a former Iranian formal to lifetime imprisonment on the baseless allegations leveled by the anti-Iran terrorist MKO cult.

On July 12, the Secretary of Iran Significant Council for Human Rights urged the UN to hold the Swedish govt accountable for the illegal detention and demo of Nouri, although calling for his speedy launch.

Also, Iranian Overseas Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, in a mobile phone get in touch with with his Swedish counterpart Ann Linde, had stressed the speedy release of Nouri.

MNA/