Belgian Court Dismisses Appeal Against Iran Deal

(MENAFN- Kuwait News Agency (KUNA)) BRUSSELS, March 3 (KUNA) -- Belgium's Constitutional Court Friday rejected the appeal against the law agreeing to the Iran deal, which is a treaty governing the transfer of prisoners between Iran and Belgium.
However, the Court attached a condition to its ruling, Belgian news agency, Belga, reported.
If the government decides to transfer a prisoner to Iran, it must inform the victims so that they can have the legality of the transfer reviewed by the court of first instance.
The treaty governing the transfer of prisoners between Iran and Belgium is relevant in the case of OIivier Vandecasteele, a Belgian aid worker who has been held in an Iranian jail for more than a year, as well as in the case of an Iranian diplomat jailed in Belgium.
Last December the Constitutional Court suspended the agreement on the extradition of an Iranian diplomat who was jailed on terrorism charges.
An appeal against the law allowing the extradition of the diplomat Assadolah Assadi was filed earlier last year at the Belgian Constitutional Court, after a first instance court had approved the prisoner exchange.
Assadi was sentenced in 2021 by a Belgian court to 20 years in prison for planning a bomb attack at an opposition rally outside Paris in 2018. (end)
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