Iranian court sentences 10 soldiers for shooting down Ukrainian plane in 2020
167 passengers and nine crew members were killed, including 11 Ukrainian citizens
An Iranian court has sentenced ten Iranian military personnel for the downing of a Ukrainian passenger plane, International Airlines flight PS752, over Tehran in 2020.
Source. This was reported by Interfax-Ukraine with reference to Alarabia News.
According to the website, one of the commanders was sentenced to 10 years in prison, and nine others were sentenced to one to three years in prison.
As reported, on January 8, 2020, a UIA Boeing 737-800 passenger plane, which was to have operated flight PS752 from Tehran to Kyiv, was shot down near Imam Khomeini International Airport in Tehran immediately after takeoff. There were 167 passengers and nine crew members on board. All of them died. Among the dead were 11 citizens of Ukraine (including nine crew members), 82 citizens of Iran, 63 citizens of Canada, 10 citizens of Sweden, four citizens of Afghanistan, and three citizens of Germany and the United Kingdom.
On January 11, the Iranian authorities admitted that the Boeing was shot down by the Iranian military by mistake. Later, the Commander of the Aerospace Forces of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), Amir Ali Hajizadeh, said he took full responsibility for the crash of the Ukrainian plane.
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