The Islamic Republic continues to behave as if it were already at war with the West. Also, it may use sentences of this kind to try to give the Iranian people the impression that the country is beset by spies and saboteurs from the Infidel West, and hence the protests are just playing into the hands of the enemies not just of the regime, but of the nation in general.
“Iran Sentences Belgian Aid Worker to 28 Years in Prison,” by Bart H. Meijer, Reuters, December 14, 2022:
AMSTERDAM (Reuters)—Belgian aid worker Olivier Vandecasteele has been sentenced to 28 years in prison in Iran for a “fabricated series of crimes”, Belgium’s Justice Minister said on Wednesday, adding the government was doing everything possible to secure his release.
Vandencasteele had been sentenced as retribution for a jail sentence Belgium imposed on an Iranian diplomat last year, Justice Minister Vincent Van Quickenborne said in the Belgian parliament.
“This is a compatriot who was innocently arrested in February and has been held under inhumane conditions since,” he said.
Belgium has repeatedly said there are no grounds for the detention of 41-year-old Vandencasteele.
The Iranian Foreign Ministry declined to comment.
“It’s a disgrace and a tragedy for Olivier and his family,” family spokesman Olivier Van Steirtegem told Belgian newspaper Het Nieuwsblad. “He is innocent and the victim of a larger, shady international game.”…
Walter Sieruk says
When it comes to those in power in that hoffific tyranny that in Iran and the cruel vicious evil that Islamic regime against the aid worker from Belgian does ,in this case , prove true the modern saying “Which is no good deed will go unpunished.”
For Rasis and Khamenei along with the other Muslim monsters they have installed in power are full of malicious wickedness.
gravenimage says
Islamic Republic of Iran sentences Belgian aid worker to 28 years in prison for ‘fabricated series of crimes’
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This poor man.
You can’t help these thugs.
Scotsman48 says
They will trade him for the Iranian Diplomat in EU prison.
Alkflaeda says
Another Nazanin Zhagari-Ratcliffe. I hope the Belgian government are more effective at getting him out quickly than the UK Government was in Nazanin’s case. This behaviour should be called by its correct title, which is kidnap/abduction for hostage purposes, not legal arrest.