On May 10, Iranian Justice Ministry spokesman Zabikhura Khodaian announced that Ahmedreza Jarari, a Swedish-Iranian researcher suspected of "espionage for Israel," had been sentenced to death and would be executed by May 21.
The death sentence comes before the swedish trial of former Iranian prosecutor Hamid Nuri, whose activities have just ended, and the verdict has not yet been announced, but I am afraid that Iran has guessed it. If Nuri is found guilty, he faces the highest penalty for "international war crimes" and "human rights violations": life imprisonment.
Stockholm judicial authorities accuse Nuri of executing a group of political prisoners, numbering up to 5,000, in 1988 at the Gohadashit prison in Karayi, Iran. The Iranian Foreign Ministry therefore summoned the Swedish envoy to protest "the baseless and fabricated allegations made by swedish prosecutors against Iran in the Nuri court case".
