The court handed down a life sentence to former Iranian prison official Hamid Nouri after he was accused of taking part in the mass killings of dissidents in 1988.
All 20 defendants were convicted for their roles in the 2015 Paris terror attacks. The main defendant was sentenced to life in prison. The highly anticipated verdict brings to an end a case that lasted over nine months.
The highly anticipated verdict brings to an end a historic court case that lasted more than nine months. Nineteen of 20 defendants were convicted for their roles in the 2015 Paris attacks.
Eight Iranian men convicted of theft and held outside Tehran are in imminent risk of having their fingers cut off, an NGO warned on Friday, decrying the punishment as “inhuman”.