Habib Chaab, a Swedish-Iranian convicted of leading an Arab separatist group accused of attacks including one on a military parade in 2018 that killed 25 people was executed on Saturday, May 6 2023.
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The Swedish foreign ministry said it summoned Iran’s deputy ambassador to protest the execution of Habib Farajollah Chaab, which it confirmed had occurred earlier that day.
Habib Chaab was sentenced to death for being “corrupt on earth,” which is a capital offence under Iran’s strict Islamic laws.
Iran charged him with leading the Arab Struggle Movement for the Liberation of Ahwaz, which seeks a separate state in the oil-rich Khuzestan province of southwestern Iran, and plotting and carrying out “numerous bombings and terrorist operations” in 2022.
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Mizan News Agency/West Asia News Agency/Reuters
The judiciary accused the security agencies of Sweden, Israel, and regional countries of supporting Chaab and his group, which it claimed had killed or injured 450 Iranians over several years, in a statement announcing the execution.
Tobias Billstrom, Sweden’s Foreign Minister, expressed “dismay” at Chaab’s execution, saying Sweden had pleaded with Iran not to carry it out.
“The death penalty is an inhuman and irreversible punishment and Sweden, together with the rest of the EU, condemns its application under all circumstances,” he said.
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