Irrevocable. The Iranian Judicial Authority has confirmed the death penalty against an Iranian-Swedish dissident, Habib Chaab, detained since 2020. “(His) death sentence is confirmed and final,” said the Mizan Online agency. Reason: “corruption on earth, the management and direction of a rebel group and the design and execution of numerous terrorist operations. »
Leader of the ASMLA (Arab Movement for the Liberation of Ahvaz) group, considered a terrorist movement by the Iranian authorities, Habib Chaab disappeared in October 2020 after going to Istanbul, before reappearing a month later detained in Iran.
Six French still detained
In November 2020, Iranian television broadcast a video of this man in his fifties. He accused himself of a deadly attack that targeted a military parade in Ahvaz, capital of Khuzestan province, in September 2018.
Sweden, of which he is a citizen, has taken steps to offer him consular assistance. Without result, because Iran does not recognize dual nationality. At least 16 Western passport holders, including six French, are being held in Iran.
On March 1, Germany expelled two diplomats to protest against the death sentence of Iranian-German dissident Jamshid Sharmahd, accused of taking part in a 2008 mosque attack.