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Sweden hands life sentence to ex-Iranian official over 1988 purge

Hamid Noury (L) was convicted of his involvement in the massacre of political prisoners in Iran in 1988 [File: Anders Humlebo/TT News Agency via Reuters]

A former Iranian official has been sentenced to life in prison by a Swedish court after being convicted of committing grave war crimes and murder during the final phase of the Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s.

The Stockholm District Court on Thursday said that Hamid Noury took part in severe atrocities in July-August 1988 while working as an assistant to the deputy prosecutor at the Gohardasht prison outside the Iranian city of Karaj.

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