Belgium's Constitutional Court on Wednesday started its final hearing on an extradition treaty with Iran that would allow the transfer of Assadollah Assadi, an Iranian diplomat who is accused of masterminding a bomb plot in Paris in 2018. But the treaty would also allow the release of Belgian aid worker Olivier Vandecasteele, whom Iran's authorities sentenced to 28 years in jail on spying charges.
It is the last chance for Vandecasteele's lawyers to persuade the court to reinstate an extradition treaty with Tehran that may send him back home.
