A court upholds the death sentence against Iranian-Swedish dissident Habib Chaab

March 12 (EUROPA PRESS) –

The Iranian Judiciary has confirmed this Sunday the death sentence issued against the Iranian-Swedish dissident Habib Farajulá Chaab, convicted of belonging to a terrorist group, as announced by the semi-official Mehr news agency.

Chaab is the founder of the separatist group the Movement of the Arab Struggle for the Liberation of Ahvaz, which Iran accuses of committing numerous attacks in the southwestern province of Khuzestan, including a 2018 attack on the Iranian Revolutionary Guard that resulted in almost thirty deaths.

After living in Sweden for 14 years, Chaab disappeared in Turkey in 2020, under unclear circumstances, only to reappear in Iran, already in custody.

The trial against Chaab took place this week and the Swedish government, in its latest statement regarding the case, confirmed that it was already aware of the proceedings and that it was making every effort to negotiate with the Iranian authorities.

“The information we have so far is very worrying,” a Foreign Ministry spokesman explained this week in a statement to the newspaper ‘Expressen’. According to the spokesman, Iran has not granted Chaab consular access on the understanding that the dissident is only an Iranian citizen “and therefore the case constitutes a purely internal matter.”

“We do not share Iran’s position,” the Swedish Ministry ended up concluding in its statement.