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International law: exchange of prisoners between Sweden and Iran. Photo: Hamid Nouri speaks to the Iranian press on his return to Tehran.

International law put to the test in prisoner exchanges

On June 15th 2024, Sweden announced the exchange of two of its nationals imprisoned in Iran for Hamid Nouri, a former Iranian official sentenced in 2022 by the Swedish courts for his role in mass executions in Iranian prisons in 1988. Swedish diplomat Jan Eliasson, former foreign minister in 2006 and then deputy secretary general […]

By Christian Catomeris (in Stockholm, Sweden)

Gender apartheid for women in Iran and women in Afghanistan - Photo: a woman wearing a hijab walks down a street, closely followed by a Taliban patrol.

Crimes against Afghan women drive push to recognize “gender apartheid”

Iraj Mesdaghi displays documents on a table

Sweden-Iran: Noury faces death row survivors

Kazem Rajavi

Why Switzerland is relaunching an Iranian cold case for "genocide"

Activist in front of thousands of photos of victims of the 1988 massacres in Iran

Why the trial of an Iranian in Sweden is a "big deal"

Activist in front of thousands of photos of victims of the 1988 massacres in Iran

Iran: first trial for 1988 massacres opens in Stockholm

Four questions on Iran's legal challenge to US sanctions

Four questions on Iran's legal challenge to US sanctions

The Return of Diplomacy: What Consequences for Transitional Justice?