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Iranian foreign ministry summons Swedish envoy over court verdict against former official

People react to the verdict of the trial of Hamid Noury, a former Iranian prosecution official accused of crimes against international law and murder in Iran in 1988, outside the Stockholm District Court in Stockholm, Sweden July 14, 2022. Chris Anderson/TT News Agency/via REUTERS

The Iranian foreign ministry summoned the Swedish chargé d'affaires in Tehran on Thursday and handed him a note of protest over a Swedish court sentence against the former Iranian official Hamid Noury, Iran's Arabic-language television network Al Alam reported.

A Swedish court sentenced Noury to life in prison for his part in the mass execution and torture of political prisoners in the 1980s.

(Reporting by Alaa Swilam)

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