Belgium and Iran have exchanged prisoners in Oman. Tehran released a Belgian aid worker in exchange for an Iranian diplomat convicted of trying to bomb a meeting of exiles in France, officials said.
De Croo said Vandecasteele was transferred to Oman on Thursday night. He was received by a team of Belgian diplomats and military officials, then was assessed by doctors.
to a lengthy prison term and 74 lashes after convicting him of espionage in a closed-door trial. He also was fined $1 million. Vandecasteele had worked for a number of humanitarian organizations and his family and the Belgian government strongly denied Iran’s claims, made without offering evidence, that he was a spy.of masterminding a thwarted bomb attack against an exiled Iranian opposition group in France and sentenced him to 20 years in prison.
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