Brussels: Europe and the Arabs
It was announced in Brussels that the Belgian Constitutional Court will issue its decision, Thursday, on the issue of suspending the prisoner exchange treaty with Iran. This is clear from the announcement of the expected rulings of the court this week. According to the Belgian news agency. And in March 2022, Belgium and Iran signed a treaty according to which Iranians imprisoned in Belgium can be transferred to their country and vice versa. At the end of July, the Belgian parliament ratified the treaty, which was criticized by many from the Belgian opposition and opposition movements against the regime in Tehran. The NCRI even went to the Belgian Constitutional Court to request the suspension of the treaty.
The treaty was published in the Belgian Official Gazette on 4 November after it had been ratified by the Iranian authorities. The treaty allows for the exchange of two prisoners, terrorist diplomat Assadollah Assadi, who was sentenced to 20 years in prison in Belgium in 2021 for planning an attack on an Iranian opposition meeting in Paris, and Belgian development aid worker Olivier Vandecastel. , who was arrested in Iran on February 24 for reasons that are not clear. His family announced on November 29 that he was on a hunger strike to protest the inhumane conditions in which he was being held.