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

Hadi Ghaemi, executive director of the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI), hailed the conviction as “historic because for the first time in 43 years, since the inception of the Islamic Republic, an Iranian official has been held accountable for mass atrocities”.

“Unlike thousands of political prisoners who were executed without due process based on their religious and political beliefs in Iran in 1988, Hamid was tried in a democratic country through a fair and lengthy judicial process that granted him every avenue to prepare a thorough defense,” said Ghaemi said on Twitter.