A Swedish-Iranian dissident who had been found guilty of being the leader of a gang responsible for many deadly strikes inside the nation was killed by Iran on Saturday.
According to Iranian official media, Habib Chaab, the leader of a separatist movement in Iran's Khuzestan province that sought the independence of Arabs, was hanged after being found guilty of corruption.
Chaab has spent ten years residing in Sweden. But in 2020, he travelled to Turkey, where he was apprehended by Iranian operatives and returned to Iran.
In a statement released on Saturday, the European Union vehemently denounced the execution."The death penalty violates the inalienable right to life enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and is the ultimate cruel, inhuman, and degrading punishment," EU officials stated. The European Union requests that Iran stop all executions going forward and adopt a consistent strategy to abolish the death penalty.
Dual citizens of the EU and Iran were arbitrarily detained in Iran, according to the EU, in "direct violation" of international law.
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