Thursday, July 28, 2022: The Brussels Court of First Instance convened considering a request by the Iranian Resistance preventing the extradition and release of Assadollah Assadi, an Iranian regime diplomat-terrorist.
Assadi convicted and imprisoned for his direct role in a foiled bomb plot targeting the great gathering of the Iranian Resistance rally near Paris in 2018.
The Court scheduled a substantive case hearing for September 19, 2022
According to the NCRI, the lawyers of Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, President-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), international plaintiffs, and lawyers representing the Belgian Prime Minister, the Ministers of Justice, and Foreign Affairs, were present at the hearing.
The Court gave the parties until September 15 to exchange their briefs and set a date for the oral hearing by the parties for September 19, 2022.
By doing so, the Court extended the ban on returning Assadi to Iran until September 19 to undertake a substantive consideration of the plaintiffs’ request.
