A Swedish court on Thursday sentenced a former Iranian official to life in prison for participating in the 1988 mass killings of jailed dissidents, APA's Tehran bureau reports.
Hamid Nouri was convicted for war crimes and crimes against humanity over his role in the killing of at least 5,000 prisoners across Iran, alleged to have been ordered by Ayatollah Khomeini.
Thursday's verdict followed court proceedings that have been running since August 2021.
Nouri was arrested at a Stockholm airport in 2019 after Iranian dissidents in Sweden filed police complaints against him.
The proceedings marked the first time an Iranian prison official has gone on trial for the 1988 purge of prisoners.
The executions were revenge for attacks carried out by exiled dissident group the People's Mujahedin of Iran (MEK) towards the end of the Iran-Iraq war of 1980-88.
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