Iran to execute Swedish-Iranian national Ahmadreza Djalali by May 21

Iran to execute Swedish-Iranian national Ahmadreza Djalali by May 21
May 4, 2022, 4:08 pm

Ahmadreza Djalali, a disaster medicine doctor and researcher (Beeld Photo News)

The Arab News reported, citing Reuters, Iran’s semi-official ISNA news agency said on Wednesday (May 4) a Swedish-Iranian national sentenced to death in Iran on charges of spying for Israeli intelligence is to be executed this month.

ISNA said that Ahmadreza Djalali, a disaster medicine doctor and researcher, was arrested in 2016 on an academic visit to Iran and is to be executed by May 21.

The report comes as Hamid Noury, a former Iranian prosecution official arrested by Swedish authorities in 2019, faces a life sentence in Sweden on charges of international war crimes and human rights abuses.

Noury is accused of playing a leading role in the killing of political prisoners executed on government orders at the Gohardasht prison in Karaj, Iran, in 1988.

Ahmadreza Djalali was arrested in 2016 on an academic visit to Iran and is to be executed by May 21 (Photo: Twitter)

The Swedish foreign ministry did not immediately comment on the ISNA report.

Under Swedish law, courts can try Swedish citizens and other nationals for crimes against international law committed abroad.

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ISNA reported in an earlier article that Iran’s foreign ministry summoned the Swedish ambassador on Monday to convey the Islamic Republic’s objection “to the baseless and fabricated accusations that the Swedish prosecutor made against Iran during Noury’s court case.”

Source: arabnews

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