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Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/30/world/middleeast/iran-sweden-trial-raisi.html
Murder Trial in Sweden Could Shine Unsavory Light on Iran's New President
(New York Times) Farnaz Fassihi - Bijan Bazargan, 28, was among 5,000 prisoners in Iran who were executed in the summer of 1988, Amnesty International and other rights groups say. On Tuesday, a Swedish court indicted Hamid Noury, 59, a former Iranian judiciary official, for war crimes and murder in connection with Bazargan's death, under the principle of universal jurisdiction. Noury was arrested at Stockholm airport when he arrived to visit family in 2019. Noury's trial begins on Aug. 10 and risks exposing new details about incoming Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi, who was a member of the four-person committee that interrogated prisoners and issued execution orders during those mass executions.