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

Balkees Jarrah, the interim international justice director at Human Rights Watch, called the verdict “a meaningful moment” for survivors and the family of the victims. “The ruling sends a message to the most senior Iranian officials implicated in these crimes that they can’t remain beyond the reach of justice forever,” she said. In Tehran, foreign ministry spokesman Nasser Kanaani strongly condemned the sentence.

“For the Islamic Republic of Iran, it is absolutely certain that the case of Mr Hamid Noury was only an excuse for a political action without any real citations and legal validity,” he said, adding Iran “holds Sweden responsible for the damages caused to bilateral relations.”