Dubai, United Arab Emirates — Iran and Sweden agreed on Saturday to a prisoner swap, freeing Hamid Nouri, convicted of war crimes by Sweden for 1988 mass executions in the Islamic Republic, in exchange for two men detained by Tehran.
Iran freed Johan Floderus, a Swede who had been working for the European Union’s diplomatic corps, as well as a man identified as Saeed Azizi by Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson.
“They are now on a plane back to Sweden and will soon be reunited with their families,” Kristersson wrote on social platform X.
Oman mediated the exchange, Oman’s state news agency reported. Iranian state television reported that Nouri had already been released and would return to Tehran.
In 2022, Stockholm District Court sentenced Nouri to life in prison for his role in the executions. He identified Nouri as a deputy assistant prosecutor at Gohardasht prison outside the Iranian city of Karaj.
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