Rally against Hamid Nouri's life sentence in front of the Swedish embassy

The 61-year-old was found guilty of participating “in the executions of many political prisoners in Iran in the summer of 1988.” He was also convicted over the murders of other left-wing sympathisers who were deemed to have renounced their Islamic faith. It is the first time that an Iranian official has been tried and convicted for the mass killing of opponents in 1988. At the time, Noury had been working as an assistant to the deputy prosecutor at the Gohardasht prison near the Iranian city of Karaj. He was arrested in November 2019 when he arrived at Stockholm airport.