Tehran: Iran has executed a Swedish-Iranian dissident after he was convicted of leading a group of Arab separatists accused of attacks, including the one on the military parade in 2018 that killed 25 people, state media said.
According to the Reuters, Habib Farajollah Chaab has been sentenced to death for being “corrupt on earth” and heading a rebel group accused of terrorism. State broadcaster IRIB reported his execution on Saturday morning.
The Iranian judiciary’s Mizan Online website reported, “the death sentence for Habib Chaab, nicknamed Habib Asyud, and the head of Harakat al-Nidal terrorist group was executed Saturday morning.”.
In March, the Iranian Supreme Court upheld the Iranian-Swedish dissident’s death sentence for alleged “terrorist” activities involving the Arab separatist group known as the “Arab Struggle Movement for the Liberation of Ahwaz”.
Tehran said that in 2020 its security forces arrested Sweden-based Chaab in Turkiye and took him to Iran without saying where or how he was captured, reported Al Jazeera.
