Before Christmas, the Svea Court of Appeal sentenced Hamid Noury, 62, to life imprisonment for gross crimes against humanity and 24 counts of murder following the mass executions of political prisoners in an Iranian prison in 1988, on the orders of Iran’s then-supreme leader Ayatollah Khomeini.
The propaganda agency Tehran Times writes on Wednesday evening that Noury must have broken his leg. The information is said to come from his relatives in Iran. They tell local media that he does not know how the injury occurred because they are not allowed to have contact with him. They also claim that he must have been kept in his detention cell and denied care for a week.
According to information to Expressen, it is true that the convicted mass murderer has broken his leg. The fracture is said to have been caused by the 62-year-old jumping up and down in his cell and then landing crookedly, Expressen learns.
On Friday, he is said to have arrived at Sankt Göran’s hospital in Stockholm, accompanied by a massive gathering, around 30 people, from the Probation Service and the police. After examination, doctors decided that he would undergo surgery. It is not clear if he is still in the hospital.
Politically sensitive case
Noury worked for the same Islamist regime that still rules the country with an iron fist, and his case is very politically sensitive.
This weekend it became known that the Swedish EU official Johan Floderus, who is imprisoned in Iran, risks being sentenced to death.
Assessors believe that the accusations against Floderus, that he would have spied for Israel, seem to be groundless and that the legal process could be a way to put pressure on Sweden to release Hamid Noury.
Swedish KI scientist Ahmadreza Djalali was sentenced to death after another summary trial in 2017.
Expressen is looking for Hamid Noury’s defense lawyer Thomas Bodström and the prosecutors in the case.
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