Iran’s judiciary said the execution of Habib Farajollah Chaab, a Swedish-Iranian dissident accused of playing a role in a 2018 gun attack, will go ahead.
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Iran’s judiciary said the execution of Habib Farajollah Chaab, a Swedish-Iranian dissident accused of playing a role in a 2018 gun attack, will go ahead.
Judicial authorities on Sunday rejected an appeal against his death sentence, the semi-official Iranian Students’ News Agency reported, citing a statement from the public affairs office of the high court.
Chaab was charged with “corruption on earth” — a capital offense in Iran — after prosecutors accused him of being the head of an Arab separatist group that carried out an attack on a military parade in the southwestern city of Ahvaz that killed 25 people more than four years ago.
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Chaab was arrested in November 2020. Turkey’s state-run broadcaster TRT reported at the time that he was kidnapped in Istanbul and smuggled into Iran by operatives working for Iranian intelligence.
In February last year, a prosecutor claimed Chaab had “Saudi and Israeli sponsorship” and that his group was also backed by Sweden and Denmark, the semi-official Fars news agency reported, without giving details or referring to any evidence presented at his trial.
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