Danish Court Upholds Guilty Verdicts for Iranian Separatists on Terrorism, Spying Charges

The three individuals, linked to a deadly attack in Iran and spying for Saudi intelligence, face up to 12 years in prison.

Three members of an Iranian separatist group, the Arab Struggle Movement for the Liberation of Ahvaz, have had their guilty verdicts upheld by a Danish appeals court on charges of promoting terror in Iran and spying for an unnamed Saudi intelligence service.
The individuals were arrested in February 2020 and convicted for their involvement in a deadly attack on a military parade in Iran in September 2018.
The court confirmed that the men had been gathering information about individuals and organizations in Denmark and abroad, as well as on Iranian military affairs, and passing it on to Saudi intelligence.
The men face potential sentences of up to 12 years in prison, with the exact terms to be announced later this year.
The case was linked to a 2018 police operation in Denmark over an alleged Iranian plot to kill one or more opponents of the Iranian government.