(ANSA) – TEHRAN, MAY 04 – The death sentence in Iran for the Iranian-Swedish university researcher Ahmadreza Djalali is scheduled for no later than 21 March next. The Isna agency reports this by citing anonymous sources while at the moment there have been no comments on the matter from the judiciary.
Djalali was arrested in 2016 while in the country at the invitation of the University of Tehran and Shiraz. In 2017 he was sentenced to death after being accused of providing information to Israeli intelligence regarding the Iranian nuclear program. A university researcher now 50 years old, Djalali has worked in numerous European universities and in 2018, while in prison, he received Swedish citizenship. Various UN reports have criticized Iran for the conditions of Djalali’s detention to which confessions were extrapolated after threats and he would find himself in poor health due to the isolation regime to which he was subjected.
The announcement of the execution of the death sentence comes on the same day as the conclusion of the trial in Stockholm for Hamid Nouri, a former Iranian judiciary official arrested in Sweden in 2019 on charges of war crimes and human rights abuses for having had a role in the execution of more than 5,000 political prisoners in Iran in 1988. Tehran called the allegations against Nouri “unfounded and fabricated” who, if found guilty, could be sentenced to life in prison. (HANDLE).
Source: Ansa
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