The regime-loyal Iranian newspaper, Kayhan, writes on Monday about Hamid Noury, who a little over a week ago was sentenced in the Court of Appeal to life imprisonment for crimes against international law in Iran.
The newspaper compares the trial against Iranian citizen Hamid Noury with the ongoing trial against Swedish EU official Johan Floderus in Iran. The Swedish judiciary is accused of subjecting Noury to torture-like conditions in a regular judicial killing in Sweden.
The article also states that the punishment against Floderus, who is accused of spying for Israel, may be both “heavy” and “remorseful”.
“The Swedish judiciary and the government have sentenced Hamid Nouri based on false claims by the members of criminal organizations and terrorists, in an unfair trial to life imprisonment,” writes the newspaper.
“But don’t forget that when the trial against the Swede, accused of intelligence cooperation with the Zionist regime, is finished, he may receive a heavy and remorseful punishment, according to domestic and international laws,” the newspaper writes further.
Speculation about prisoner exchange
Floderus has been imprisoned in Tehran since last April, when he was arrested after a vacation. The Swede was arrested shortly after Hamid Noury was detained in Sweden. Something that Iran criticized harshly and condemned as “politically motivated”.
The accusations against Johan Floderus have been condemned as groundless both by the Swedish government and by the EU’s foreign affairs chief Josep Borrell.
Noury was sentenced to life imprisonment for his involvement in mass executions in an Iranian prison in 1988.
There has been speculation that Iran wants to use the arrest of Johan Floderus in particular to bring about a prisoner exchange with Sweden for Hamid Noury.
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