Activists, exiled opposition slam Sweden's 'shameful' freeing of Iranian ex-official

Hamid Noury, a former Iranian prison official, had been convicted and jailed in Sweden under the principle of universal jurisdiction which allows states to try crimes carried out in other countries. It remains the only such case concerning atrocities in Iran. The freeing of Noury is "shameful and unjustifiable" and "an affront to the Swedish judiciary", said the National Council of Resistance of Iran, the political wing of the People's Mujahedin (PMOI/MEK), outlawed in Iran, whose members accounted...