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Iran recalls its envoy to Sweden in protest against ex-official's verdict

FILE PHOTO: People react to the verdict of the trial of Hamid Noury, a former Iranian prosecution official accused of crimes against international law and murder in Iran in 1988, outside the Stockholm District Court in Stockholm, Sweden July 14, 2022. Chris Anderson/TT News Agency/via REUTERS

Iran has recalled its ambassador to Sweden in protest against a Swedish court's life time in prison sentence for a former Iranian official for involvement in the mass execution of political prisoners in 1988 in the Islamic Republic.

On July 14, a Swedish court sentenced Hamid Noury to life in prison for the mass execution and torture of political prisoners at the Gohardasht prison in Karaj, Iran, in 1988.

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