The death sentence of Habib Chaab, detained in Iran since 2020 for “terrorism”, has been approved by the Supreme Court.
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” I“Habib Chaab’s death sentence for corruption on Earth, management and leadership of a rebel group, and designing and carrying out numerous terrorist operations has been approved by the Supreme Court,” the agency said. Iranian Justice Mizan Online. The Iranian-Swedish dissident, detained since 2020 in Iran, where he was sentenced for “terrorism”, therefore faces the death penalty.
Leader of the ASMLA (Arab Movement for the Liberation of Ahvaz) group, considered a terrorist movement by the Iranian authorities, Mr. Chaab disappeared in October 2020 after going to Istanbul and before reappearing a months later detained in Iran. On trial since January 2022 for ” terrorism » and above all the spread of ” corruption on earth »justice announced on December 6 the death sentence of this man aged about fifty years according to the media.
Conviction ” confirmed and final »
In November 2020, Iranian television broadcast a video of Habib Chaab in which he accused himself in particular of a deadly attack which targeted a military parade in September 2018 in Ahvaz, capital of the province of Khuzestan. ” Mr. Chaab’s death sentence confirmed and final »clarified Mizan Online.
Sweden, of which he is a citizen, has taken steps to offer him consular assistance but without result, because Iran does not recognize dual nationality.
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On Monday, the Iranian justice sentenced to death six men accused of being part of the ASMLA group, accusing them of having ” followed the orders of their European leaders, such as Habib Nabgan and Habib Chaab ». Tehran had provoked a wave of international indignation after executing in January a former defense official, the Iranian-British Alireza Akbari, convicted of espionage.
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