The prisoner swap also won’t help the thousands of Iranians who are unjustly and often brutally detained by the government. For Iran, getting Mr. Nouri back from Sweden is a major coup.

was “at risk of execution in retaliation” for Sweden’s conviction of Nouri. Last year, the United States and Iran freed 10 people in a prisoner swap. Five Americans, including dual national ...

Iran and Sweden carried out a prisoner swap Saturday that saw Tehran release a European Union diplomat and another man in exchange for an Iranian convicted in Stockholm of committing war crimes ...

with Sweden freeing a former Iranian official convicted for his role in a mass execution in the 1980s while Iran released two Swedes being held there. The prisoner swap was mediated by Oman, ...

In a statement following the swap announcement, Kristersson claimed Iran used the Swedish prisoners as “pawns in a cynical negotiation game.” He suggested their goal was always to free Nouri.

June 15 (UPI) --Sweden ... swap between the two countries. Hamid Noury, who was arrested in Sweden in 2019 and sentenced to life for his involvement in the mass execution of political prisoners in ...

Hamid Noury sits with attorney Thomas Soderqvist, during his trial, in this courtroom sketch, in Stockholm District Court, Sweden November 23, 2021 (File photo/Reuters) Iran and Sweden conducted a ...

International human rights groups and activists have strongly condemned a prisoner exchange between Sweden ... swap. Floderus is a Swedish EU diplomat held in captivity for two years in Iran ...

COPENHAGEN, Denmark — The Swedish European Union diplomat who was held in Iran for two years and freed in a prisoner swap over the weekend ... returned to Sweden on Saturday in exchange for ...

The prisoner swap also won’t help the thousands of Iranians who are unjustly and often brutally detained by the government. For Iran, getting Nouri back from Sweden is a major coup. Nouri was a ...