Ahmad Reza Jalali (Djalali)

<p>Ahmadreza Jalali is an Iranian-Swedish physician and researcher. In 2016, he traveled to Iran at the invitation of the University of Tehran and Shiraz University to participate in a crisis management workshop. He was arrested and transferred to Evin Prison. He was eventually sentenced to death on corruption and espionage charges for Israel.</p>

<p>To exert pressure on Western countries, particularly Sweden, Iranian political and judicial officials have repeatedly stated that Ahmad Reza Jalali will be executed. Hamid Nouri, a former prosecutor at Rajai Shahr Prison (Gohardasht) who was involved in executing hundreds of political prisoners, was arrested in November 2019 after traveling to Sweden. He was charged with premeditated murder and war crimes in the Stockholm Prosecutor's Office for his role in executing political prisoners in the 1980s. Shortly after Nouri's arrest in Sweden and again in the final days of Nouri's trial, Iranian officials announced that Ahmad Reza Jalali would be executed. Soon Although the Iranian government has said that the execution of Ahmad Reza Jalali's sentence has nothing to do with the arrest and prosecution of Hamid Nouri, the Islamic Republic's evidence of political abuse of dual-national prisoners in the past reinforces this assumption.</p> <symbol-timeline></symbol-timeline>

• <coverage-outsourcing id='11947'> According to IPA well-informed sources, Ahmad Reza Jalali (Djalali) was arrested while driving on the Tehran-Karaj road. He was taken to Evin prison and incarcerated in a solitary cell for three months. </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='39143'> After three months in solitary confinement, he was transferred to one of the wards (a room with several prisoners) in Section 209. During this time, he was denied access to a lawyer and contact with his family; No further details are available on the exact duration of the ban on contact with the family and whether he was deprived of phone calls or visits. </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='39144'> According to Vida Mehrannia, Ahmad Reza Jalali's wife, Mr. Jalali, was told that he would be sentenced to death during the last interrogation. He went on a hunger strike from today. </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='11946'> In a brief interview, Ahmad Reza Jalali's defense attorney, Mahmoud Alizadeh Tabatabaee, told Radio Farda that his client "has a security case" but did not elaborate further. </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='12014'> The International Campaign for Human Rights reported that he was held in Section 209 for seven months before being transferred to a public ward. According to this report, Mr. Jalali managed to gain access to legal advice after this transfer. </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='12468'> Vida Mehrannia told the International Campaign for Human Rights that her husband was unconscious and taken to Evin Medical Center. According to Ms. Mehrannia, Ahmad Reza Jalali is still on a hunger strike. </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='39147'> <reference source=''> According to reports from the media and human rights organizations, he was sentenced to death today by Branch 15 of the Revolutionary Court by Judge Abolghasem Salavati on charges of corruption on earth through "espionage and selling of information to Israel." Sometime later, the security and judicial apparatuses claimed with contradictory statements that no verdict had been issued in this case. However, given the evidence and Mr.Jalali's hunger strike in protest of this sentence, the Islamic Republic sought to deceive Mr. Jalali into ending his hunger strike. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='12776'> "The accusation that our Iranian colleague is a spy is not acceptable," said the Italian researcher and coordinator of the working group at the Center of Research and education in Emergency and Disaster Medicine in Novara, Francesco Della Corte. "His involvement with an Israeli researcher in an EU-sponsored medical project could be the reason for the arrest of Ahmad Reza Jalali." According to a report published by Kayhan London, the project, which was also collaborated by several Saudi researchers, aimed to improve hospital performance in developing countries during natural disasters such as earthquakes." </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='12778'> Vida Mehrannia told Radio Farda that Judge Salavati has met with her husband and asked him to break his hunger strike because "the hunger strike won't change his sentence." Ms. Mehrannia added that the case special investigator had told her husband that his sentence was not death, but the interrogators insisted on it </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='39146'> Vida Mehrannia explained to the International Campaign for Human Rights that the death sentence had not been issued. Judge Salavati's statements were a kind of crime against Mr. Jalali. The details of this case are unknown, and the Iranian government has denied the lawyer access to the case. </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='12982'> A source familiar with Jalali's case told Radio Farda that an official from the Ministry of Intelligence in Evin Prison had informed Ahmad Reza Jalali that his case would be re-examined. </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='12965'> Mahmoud Alizadeh Tabatabai, a lawyer nominated by Ahmad Reza Jalali, told IranWire that the court had not accepted him as a lawyer. Using the note to Article 48 of the Criminal Procedure Code, the Iranian judiciary takes only lawyers in security cases - mainly related to political dissidents - who should be approved by the Head of the Judiciary. Mr. Tabatabai says this generally is not as such only for the period of investigation. Still, even when the case is sent to court, they do not allow them to select a lawyer. </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='13015'> In an interview with "Heilbronner Stimme" newspaper, Omid Nouripour, the Green Party representative in the parliament of Germany demanded Ahmad Reza Jalali's immediate and unconditional freedom and said: > The whole process of Ahmad Reza Jalali's trial has no sign of the rule of law. Also, Evelyne Gebhardt, the vice-presidents of the European Parliament asked Federica Mogherini, High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs to do all she can to save Ahmad Reza Jalali's life. </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='13195'> The Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs published a statement requesting his freedom and return to his family. </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='13394'> <reference source='https://kayhan.london/fa/?p=67510'> According to Vida Mehrannia, the court did not allow Ahmad Reza Jalali to choose a lawyer. Mahmoud Alizadeh Tabatabai was introduced as Jalali's lawyer during the trial, but the court refused to accept him. Zeinab Taheri is another lawyer appointed by Ahmad Reza Jalali and has attended several interrogation sessions. Vida Mehranunia told Kayhan London that the judge would not accept Ms. Taheri as a lawyer as the trial approached. Rejecting Zeinab Taheri's disqualification, the judge said, "Because Ms. Taheri is defending Mr. Jalali's innocence, the court is unwilling to accept her." </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='13424'> Vida Mehrannia, his wife, told Zeitoon that in the middle of her husband’s hunger strike, someone had entered his room and sworn on the Koran that his case would be reviewed again. Still, three days later, judge Salavati told him that his sentence would remain that of execution, that he would not accept his lawyer, and that he would not grant an audience to anyone else who claimed there had been a mistake in his case. According to Ms. Mehrannia, Mr. Jalali, who had stopped his hunger strike in these three days, started it again and finally, with the start of his dry hunger strike, announced that he would not take part in his court hearing if the judge did not accept his lawyer. </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='13376'> <reference source='https://www.hra-news.org/letters/a-312/'> Ahmad Reza Jalali Wrote a letter explaining his case and claiming his innocence, stressing that he doesn’t have access to a lawyer and is being kept in solitary cells. He wrote that he had begun a hunger strike to claim his rights and that, until now, he mainly had engaged in scholarly endeavors. This letter, published by HRANA, can be found in the evidence section of this website. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='14263'> Ahmad Reza Jalaii's mother, Najiba Mortazavi, told HRANA that interrogators were trying to make up for the lack of evidence by pressuring her son to sign "false" confessions in solitary confinement, threatening her son to execute him and injuring his family. Mr. Jalali stopped eating and weighed 54 kilos, and every two days, he is injected. It has been about 20 days since he was returned from Section 240 to Section 209. Ms. Mortazavi visits her son every 15 days. The judge insulted Ms. Mortazavi and expelled her out of his office. Ahmad Reza Jalali wants to be accompanied by his lawyer, who knows about his case, to represent him in court; therefore, if the Court does not allow him to appear with his lawyer, Mr. Jalali will not appear in Court. </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='14844'> The International Campaign for Human Rights reported that judge Salavati rejected the third lawyer presented to him by the family. “Unfortunately, the hearing of Ahmad Reza Jalali has been postponed for several month because of the rejection of proposed lawyers by Judge Salavati. All three lawyers are among the reputable lawyers of Iran” </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='15007'> Natijeh Mortazavi told HRANA that despite the hunger strike, her son had not been transferred to the hospital. According to HRANA’s report, Ahmad Reza Jalali is incarcerated in Section 240. </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='15008'> Vida Mehrannia told Radio Farda that the physical condition of Ahmad Reza Jalali is not good, and one of his toes has paralysis. In their report, Radio Farda states that the support campaign for Dr. Jalali has collected 220 thousand signatures. </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='16438'> Radio Farhang reports that several European and Human Rights organisations’ representatives visited ward 4 of Evin prison and spoke to prisoners, including, Iraj Jamshidi. However, the prison authorities, in order to prevent them from meeting Ahmad Reza Jalali, moved him to ward 209 for that hour and returned him to ward 4 </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='18224'> He was transferred to court. The International Campaign for Human Rights reports that he was informed that his hearing had been postponed because judge Salavati had fallen ill. According to his wife, two of the employees of the Swedish Embassy were also present in the court to take part in the hearing. </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='19532'> <reference source='https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbr2lYEXxpY'> DorrTV published an audio file from Ahmad Reza Jalali. In a recording, he admits that he was under pressure and had to accept to appear twice before the cameras and repeat the claims of the interrogators. The interrogators said his collaboration aiming to improve Iran’s scientific and security conditions are false. The inspector of the case (Bazpors) did not control the behavior of the interrogating agents, and Dr. Jalali was denied access to a lawyer for seven months. There was an order to place him into solitary confinement for over three months. His Bazpors said that he cannot call on those who know and have been a witness in Ahmad Reza Jalali’s case because they are “powerful bullies.” Mr. Haji Moradi, the deputy prosecutor of Evin prison and other authorities, denied seeing his initial lawyer, Ms. Zainab Taheri. He claims that he accepts only a tiny segment of the case against him, but the central part of the case has been built under pressure or without his knowledge. He also stressed that judge Salavati supported the interrogators and prevented his meeting with his lawyer. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='19524'> Zeinab Taheri, a lawyer, told Amnesty International that Ahmad Reza Jalali had been sentenced to death and 200,000 euros fine on the charge of "corruption on earth." The Swedish website De Local also reported that the Swedish Foreign Ministry had raised the issue in talks with senior officials at the Iranian embassy in Stockholm. However, Ms. Eidmark, a State Department staffer, said: > Overall, we have to emphasize that he is an Iranian citizen and not a Swedish citizen. "This makes it very difficult for the Swedish government to help him." The Human Rights Organization of Iran also reported that on Saturday, October 20, 2017, Daryabeigi, another of Mr. Jalali's lawyers, informed him that his death sentence had been issued. > > Mr. Jalali was charged with "espionage" in meaningful reports, but based on a statement released by Amnesty International calling for the abolition of Ahmad Reza Jalali's death sentence, he was charged with "corruption on earth," the subject of Article 286 of the 2013 Islamic Penal Code. Some judges, such as Judge Salavati, may interpret "espionage as part of this charge. </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='20247'> The Iranian Campaign for Human Rights quoted an informed source saying that interrogators had twice pressured him and asked him to read the sentences they had written. He was told that if he did not sign the papers and "did not say exactly the words they wanted in front of the camera, his children would be harassed in Sweden." After Mr. Jalali signed the forms and read the text, he complained about the interrogators with no positive outcome. In addition, other sheets were added to his file that was not mentioned during the interrogations. </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='19552'> According to Mizan, Abbas Jafari Dolatabadi, in regards to this case, without naming him, said, “according to an indictment of the court, an individual has been charged with collaboration with Mossad, the Israeli secret service & condemned to execution.” He added, “Received information from him was used by Mossad to assassinate Iran’s nuclear scientists, including, Shahriari & Ali Mohammadi. He claims that the testimony of the witness of the nuclear trial made him guilt ridden, he has had regular meetings with more than eight Mossad intelligence officers. He regularly provided intelligence about military website activities, the nuclear energy organization and other sensitive information in return for money to Mossad. This individual provided the details of 30 individuals involved in nuclear, research and military projects to Mossad” </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='19553'> Center for Human Rights in Iran: Ahmadreza Djajali wrote in a letter from Evin Prison that he was imprisoned during a trip to Iran for refusing to spy for Iran’s Intelligence Ministry. The date of the letter, a copy of which was obtained by the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI), is unknown. The relevant passages by Djalali, an expert in emergency and disaster medicine, have been produced unedited in "supporting evidence" section along with the full letter </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='19551'> Radio Farda reports that the Swedish government condemned Ahmad Reza Jalali’s verdict of execution </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='20053'> The German newspaper Heilbronner Stimme reported that approximately one month ago members of the European Union had appealed to the Iranian authorities for issuing a death sentence for Ahmad Reza Jalali </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='20042'> 175 Nobel Laureates Plea for Ahmadreza Djalali’s Release: > As members of a group of people (and organizations) who, according to the will of Alfred Nobel are > deeply committed to the greatest benefit to mankind, we cannot stay silent, when the life and work of a > similarly devoted researcher as Iranian disaster medicine scholar Ahmadreza Djalali is threatened by a > death sentence </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='20244'> His mother told Iranwire that the death sentence for her son was confirmed by the Supreme Court. "We do not understand what we are experiencing. My son is my flower and they want to wither my flower, but I do not let them. They have to execute me with Ahmad Reza" </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='20338'> I reiterate our call to the Iranian judicial authorities to release Iranian-born Swedish scientist Ahmad Reza Djalali. ... I am gravely concerned as his basic right to a fair trial, including an appeal, seems to have been seriously violated - Pier Antonio PANZERI, Subcommittee on Human Rights in the European Parliament </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='20289'> Amnesty International issued a statement saying that Iran's courts have "violated the rule of law by endorsing the death sentence of Ahmad Reza Jalali" </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='20374'> According to Radio Culture, a group of Belgian university professors, civil activists, human rights activists and representatives of political parties, federal and Senate MPs, students and a part of the Iranian citizens living in Belgium held a gathering in protest of the death sentence and continuing his arrest In front of the Iranian embassy in this country </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='20380'> The official television of the Iranian government, broadcasted his confessions in two programs named "The Road Without a Return" and "An axe to the roots," claiming that he had worked as a nuclear physician with the Israeli security service and provided information on nuclear scientists Mr. Alimohammadi and Shahriari that have led to their assassination. In the end section of the "Road without a Return", it is said that his goal was to provide information, work in research centers, and become a citizen of one of the Western European countries. Some human rights activists disapproved of narrative claims of this program, because specialist physicians do not need to cooperate with security services to work at research centers or to acquire citizenship </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='20382'> Vida Mehrannia told IranWire that they had not yet immigrated to Sweden when the assassinations of Massoud Ali Mohammadi and Majid Shahriari. His wife said he had seen Massoud Ali Mohammadi and Majid Shahriari in a conference only a few minutes before the assassination. He did not even remember their faces. In the presence of Judge Salavati, he described the torture inflicted on him by the interrogators. Still, the judge did not follow up and even prevented him from being taken to the hospital. </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='20387'> In a report from HRANA, Ahmad Reza Jalali is incarcerated in Section 7 of Evin Prison. </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='20406'> Ahmad Reza Jalali denied the allegations of the films broadcast on Iranian government television by recording and sending an audio file from Evin Prison. This audio file is recorded in the evidence section of this website. He says the film has been cut, and his responses to external factors have not been shown. He has never said that he cooperated with Mossad, but these people introduced themselves as European security agents. They threatened to arrest or kill him and his family and once physically assaulted him, for which he attended their meetings. He met with them in the spring of 2010, when Dr. Ali Mohammadi was killed on January 13, 2010. ه Also, the only meeting he had with Mr. Ali Mohammadi and Mr. Shahriari was in 2002, and the whole session did not last more than three or four minutes. According to the film shown, Mr. Jalali took about 28,000 euros from these agents over a five-year period, which he described as "shameful and unbelievable" for someone in his financial and professional position. Also, obtaining his citizenship in Sweden is entirely legal, and his documents have been presented to the court. Another contradiction in the confession films is that Ahmad Reza Jalali had at least 50 meetings with foreign agents, while the indictment and the lawsuit mentioned 21 cases. He further notes that since 2004 he has not had any direct cooperation in any of the Ministry of Defense projects. In principle, the Ministry of Defense does not allow anyone who has been living abroad since 2008 to participate in their projects. </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='20413'> <reference source='https://www.bbc.com/persian/iran-42435387'> Four UN legal experts issued a statement calling for the immediate abolition of Ahmad Reza Jalali's death sentence. José Antonio Guevara Bermúdez drafted the report, Rapporteur on the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, Niels Melzer, Special Rapporteur on Torture, Agnes Kalamard, Special Rapporteur on Field Executions, and Asma Jahangir, Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iran. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='20438'> His wife, in a letter to Hassan Rouhani, asked him to form an impartial board to investigate the actions of the interrogators. </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='20490'> The Tehran prosecutor called Ahmad Reza Jalali, a spy who had met with foreign intelligence agents eight times and gave information in exchange for money. He accused Ahmad Reza Jalali of giving nuclear experts' names and projects by the Ministry of Defense and the Atomic Energy Organization to Mossad agents. He also said that Mr. Jalali had confessed to spoiling the systems of the Ministry of Defense. He added that Vida Mehrannia was also an International Atomic Energy Agency expert who has now resigned. It is worth mentioning that judicial and security officials have made contradictory statements about the number of times Jalali met with foreign security officials; For example, in the video of forced confession, they mentioned 50 times in the lawsuit, 21 times, eight times in the prosecutor's statement. </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='20566'> In a meeting with Javad Zarif, the Belgian Foreign Minister called for the abolition of the death sentence of Ahmad Reza Jalali. Due to the high volume of international protests over Mr. Jalali's case, the Iran Prison Atlas website will not register all of them except for exceptional circumstances. </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='20650'> His death sentence was suspended pending another judge being called upon to take the case. </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='20821'> Vida Mehranunia told IranWire that Branch 33 of the Supreme Court had rejected the request for a retrial. </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='21037'> Ahmad Reza Jalali complained about Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Ghasemi for "slander and spreading lies." In his remarks, Bahram Ghasemi said that Ahmad Reza Jalali had "confessed" to espionage and was "a criminal and a confessor to murder." </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='23823'> There are reports of Ahmad Reza Jalali being diagnosed with cancer and the refusal of Evin officials to transfer him to a medical center. </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='25975'> He was transferred to a solitary confinement cell in an unknown place. </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='39175'> He was returned to Evin Prison after 11 days. </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='33580'> <reference source='https://www.radiofarda.com/a/30967031.html'> Mr. Jalali informed his family today about the possible execution of the death sentence in a telephone call. According to Radio Farda, Ahmad Reza Jalali is in solitary confinement in Section 209 of Evin Prison. He will be transferred to Rajai Shahr Prison in the coming days to serve his death sentence. Hamid Nouri, a former prosecutor at Rajai Shahr Prison (Gohardasht) who was involved in the execution of hundreds of political prisoners, was arrested about 15 days ago after traveling to Sweden; He is accused of complicity in war crimes and the premeditated murder of political prisoners in the 1960s. Evidence shows that the Islamic Republic has raised the issue of Hamid Nouri's execution to force Sweden to extradite him. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='33586'> <reference source='https://bit.ly/3nQjoig'> Amnesty issued a statement calling for the abolition of the death sentence of Ahmad Reza Jalali. "Take action and save Ahmad Reza's life as soon as possible," the Amnesty called on the international community. Amnesty International restated the lack of a fair trial for Ahmadreza Jalali in this statement. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='33617'> <reference source='https://iranhr.net/fa/articles/4507/'> UN experts called on Iranian authorities to stop his execution due to the unfair trial, torture, and keeping Mr. Jalali in solitary confinement for enforcing execution. "We are shocked by reports that the Islamic Republic of Iran is about to execute Mr. Jalali. Arbitrary detention, torture, issuing the death sentence, and now his imminent execution is indefensible and must be condemned as severely as possible by the international community," the experts said. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='33584'> <reference source='https://www.hra-news.org/2020/hranews/a-27613/'> According to HRANA, he had been transferred to the Moghaddas Court (execution section) before a telephone conversation with his wife. "He will be kept in quarantine for up to a week to carry out the death sentence," the Judicial letter said. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='33585'> <reference source='https://www.radiofarda.com/a/seweden-call-on-iran-stop-execution/30967293.html'> Swedish Foreign Minister Anne Linde tweeted and criticized Mr. Jalali's death sentence and called on stopping the execution. Ms. Linde has announced Sweden's official objection to the Iranian Foreign Ministry. "Iran's judiciary is independent, and government interference in judicial affairs is unacceptable," Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh responded to the tweet. This claim is contrary to human rights. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='33684'> <reference source='https://www.hra-news.org/2020/hranews/a-27657/'> According to HRANA, Ahmad Reza Jalali, who has been transferred to one of the solitary confinement cells in ward 209 of Evin Prison since Tuesday, November 24, has been denied access and contact with his family and his lawyer. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='33680'> <reference source='https://telegra.ph/%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AA%D9%82%D8%A7%D9%84-%D8%A7%D8%AD%D9%85%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%B6%D8%A7-%D8%AC%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%84%DB%8C-%D8%A8%D9%87-%D8%B2%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%86-%D8%B1%D8%AC%D8%A7%DB%8C%DB%8C%E2%80%8C%D8%B4%D9%87%D8%B1-12-01'> According to the Iranian Human Rights Organization, Ahmad Reza Jalali will be transferred to Rajai Shahr Prison at 5 o'clock today for execution. Following the release of this report, his lawyer told HRANA: > My client's detention in ward 209 was supposed to be extended for another week, but today I was informed that he would be transferred to Rajai Shahr prison to serve his sentence. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='33698'> <reference source='https://bit.ly/3mC2C6q'> "My client is still being kept in Section 209 of Evin Prison, and his sentence has been suspended for days," Ahmad Reza Jalali's lawyer, Halaleh Mousavian, told Rokna news agency. According to Ms. Mousavian, Sweden's negotiations with Iran have been helpful. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='33774'> <reference source='https://www.radiozamaneh.com/558236'> Some former political and non-Iranian or dual national prisoners in Iran, such as Nizar Zaka, Jason Rezaian, Kylie Moore-Gilbert, Saeed Abedini, and Zxiyue Wang, issued a joint statement calling for the death sentence of Ahmad Reza Jalali to be overturned. "As former hostages who have experienced the horrors of a long prison term and the fear of an uncertain future, we write that if the world does not prevent the Islamic Republic from carrying out its blatant threat, it will be a mockery of justice," they wrote to Iranian government officials. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='33798'> <reference source='https://www.radiozamaneh.com/559740'> One hundred and sixty-four scientists from around the world held a 24-hour scientific marathon on YouTube, calling on Iranian government officials to immediately overturn the death sentence of Ahmad Reza Jalali and release her. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='34987'> <reference source='https://iranhr.net/fa/articles/4654/'> After about 100 days, Ahmad Reza Jalali is still in solitary confinement in Section 209. He has only received family visits once and is not allowed to contact his wife and children. He has also been denied access to his lawyer. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='34988'> <reference source='https://iranhr.net/fa/articles/4654/'> Vida Mehrannia told the Human Rights Organization of Iran that her husband's heart rate had again reached 40 and that he had lost about seven kilograms since being transferred to solitary confinement. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='39181'> He was transferred to the general section of Evin Prison. </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='39180'> <reference source='https://www.hra-news.org/2022/hranews/a-34380/'> Hrana reported that health officials had physically assaulted Ahmad Reza Jalali following a protest against the incomplete delivery of his medication. According to this report, Mr. Jalali underwent surgery on his gastrointestinal tract last year, and later, he got a Coronavirus infection. When he went to the health center to receive his medicine, he realized they had given him less medication. He protested, and as a result, he was pushed and knocked to the ground by medical officials, injuring him. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='39176'> <reference source='https://www.isna.ir/news/1401021408849/%D8%A7%D8%AC%D8%B1%D8%A7%DB%8C-%D8%AD%DA%A9%D9%85-%D8%A7%D8%AD%D9%85%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%B6%D8%A7-%D8%AC%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%84%DB%8C-%D8%AA%D8%A7-%D9%BE%D8%A7%DB%8C%D8%A7%D9%86-%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF%DB%8C%D8%A8%D9%87%D8%B4%D8%AA'> On the last day of Hamid Nouri's trial in Sweden, the Iranian news agency ISNA announced the imminent execution of Ahmad Reza Jalali. The news agency quoted informed sources saying that Mr. Jalali's death sentence would be carried out by the end of May. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='39253'> <reference source='https://kayhan.london/fa/1401/02/20/%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%B2-%DB%B1%DB%B4-%D9%85%D9%87-%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%B2-%D8%AC%D9%87%D8%A7%D9%86%DB%8C-%D8%A7%D8%B9%D8%AA%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%B6-%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%A7%DB%8C-%D9%86%D8%AC%D8%A7%D8%AA-%D8%A7%D8%AD%D9%85'> International Committee Against Executions (ICAE), Campaign to Free Political Prisoners in Iran (CFPPI), and Free Them Now! Campaign to Free Jailed Workers in Iran has declared May 14 as the International Day to Save Ahmad Reza Jalali from the Death Penalty. The three organizations have called on everyone to hold rallies supporting Ahmad Reza Jalali and his family on this day. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='39178'> <reference source='https://www.radiofarda.com/a/31838045.html'> Farhad Meysami, a political prisoner in Rajai Shahr prison, sent a letter saying that he would go on a hunger strike until the suspension of Ahmad Reza Jalali's execution. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='39177'> <reference source='https://www.irna.ir/news/84747655/%D9%86%D8%B4%D8%B3%D8%AA-%D8%AE%D8%A8%D8%B1%DB%8C-%D8%B3%D8%AE%D9%86%DA%AF%D9%88%DB%8C-%D9%82%D9%88%D9%87-%D9%82%D8%B6%D8%A7%DB%8C%DB%8C%D9%87'> In a news conference, Zabihullah Khodaeian, spokesman for the Islamic Republic's judiciary, said: > The two have nothing to do with each other, referring to the exchange of Ahmad Reza Jalali and Hamid Nouri. He also stressed that a final death sentence had been issued for Ahmad Reza Jalali and that the judiciary would act on the ruling. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='39182'> <reference source='https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FSdc-DNX0AA2hny?format=jpg&name=medium'> Twitter users staged a Twitter storm to protest Ahmad Reza Jalali's death sentence and support Farhad Meysamy's hunger strike. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='39179'> <reference source='https://twitter.com/IranIntl/status/1524293685235621889?s=20&t=CEyHnjPs6WmJ4Xq2BQCtTA'> Houshang Rezaei, a political prisoner in Rajai Shahr Prison, went on a hunger strike supporting Ahmad Reza Jalali, writing a letter describing 12 years of imprisonment and torture. He is in prison with a case and similar experiences to Mr. Jalali; For this reason, he has written part of his experiences. In the letter, he exposed the interrogators' attempts to "link him to Israel in the assassination of a nuclear scientist." Houshang Rezaei has been sentenced to death for nine years, severely tortured, flogged several times, and pressured to confess to collaborating with "Majid Jamali Fashi" (the person executed in the case of the assassination of IAEA staff). Majid Jamali Fashi was executed on May 16, 2012, after participating in a forced televised confession on charges of assassinating Ali Mohammadi. The confessions and documents presented for Jamali Fashi's conviction had numerous contradictions that journalists and the media exposed. "Someone like me does understand him, and I know how he is," he wrote to support Mr. Jalali. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='55231'> <reference source='https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/mde13/5623/2022/en/'> Amnesty International released a statement saying the authorities of the Islamic Republic of Iran aim to exchange Ahmadreza Jalali, and that is why he is being threatened with execution. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='50348'> <reference source='https://bit.ly/43hr6Yp'> In an open letter to the chief of the judiciary, Ahmad Reza Jalali's attorney Mohammad Hossein Saket requested the application of article 477 and referral of his client's case to a branch of the supreme court. In the letter, Mr. Saket emphasized that Judge Salavati issued the death sentence and the supreme court confirmed the sentence in just a few days and said: > As Mr. Jalali's defense attorney, after the final indictment I reviewed the case and in previous retrial attempts using proof and evidence I answered to the baseless charge of spreading corruption on earth through espionage for my client. Unfortunately, it didn't help and the charge wasn't removed. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='39574'> <reference source='https://bit.ly/38kflZA'> IranWire published a report about the forced TV confessions of Ahmad Reza Jalali. In recent days the state TV and the media close to the state released parts of Ahmad Reza Jalali's coerced confessions. In the video released by the state, Mr. Jalali introduces himself as a nuclear scientist part of a group of scientists in a project called "Amad". Amad and "Project 110" are the names of two of the Islamic Republic's projects under a bigger project called "Meydan", and its goal is to develop and build an underground nuclear test site in some areas of the country. Some documents regarding this project were first leaked on Jaabeh Siah's (Black Box) Telegram channel in March 2019. The channel's admin was Masoud Molavi who left Iran and was assassinated in Turkey. According to IranWire's report, during Ahmad Reza Jalali's six years in prison, there was never a claim about his participation in building a nuclear bomb. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='40048'> <reference source='https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/mde13/5698/2022/en/'> Amnesty International released a statement of call to action saying Ahmad Reza Jalali, the dual citizen prisoner in Iran is in danger of a retaliatory execution, and once again asked the chief of the judiciary Gholam Hossein Mohseni Ejei to overturn Ahmad Reza Jalali's sentence and release him immediately. Amnesty referred to his arrest as "arbitrary" and said the Islamic Republic has taken the researcher "hostage". </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='41842'> <reference source='https://ir.voanews.com/a/families-accuse-eu-ignoring-europeans-imprisoned-in-iran/6733393.html'> Families of four European citizens incarcerated in Iran sent a letter to Josep Borrell of the European Union, accusing European countries of ignoring and neglecting their citizens in Iran. Benjamin Briere's sister in France, Kamran Ghaderi's wife in Austria, Ahmadreza Jalali's wife in Sweden, and Jamshid Sharmahd's daughter in Germany wrote the letter expressing their anger at the European Union for ignoring the plight of their loved ones. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='50347'> <reference source='https://iranhr.net/fa/articles/5809/'> His wife Vide Mehrannia said in an interview with Hoghooghe Ma Magazine that "after seven years in prison, there is still no legitimate reason or evidence to justify the charges against my husband Ahmad Reza Jalali. Once they denied his retrial request without even reviewing his case." She said for two years the Islamic Republic's judiciary has not responded to the repeated requests of Mr. Jalali's attorneys for a retrial and sending the case to the supreme court. According to the interview, Mr. Jalali's attorneys are Helaleh Mousavian and Mohammad Hossein Saket. Ms. Mehrannia emphasized that at the time of the assassination of the two nuclear scientists named Masoud Ali Mohammadi and Majid Shahriari, her husband had not yet immigrated to Sweden. She also said Sweden has not done enough for her husband's release but Swedish authorities promised her to follow up on his case through the highest diplomatic channels but never did anything to release him. According to Vida Mehrannia, Swedish authorities have said that there are no prisoner exchange laws in Sweden so there is little chance of exchanging him with other prisoners. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='54009'> <reference source='https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2023/12/iran-arbitrarily-detained-swedish-iranian-academic-ahmadreza-djalali-at-grave-risk-of-retaliatory-execution/'> In a statement, Amnesty International warned of the danger of "retaliatory execution" of Ahmad Reza Jalali, in response to the sentence issued in Sweden against Hamid Nouri, a former assistant prosecutor in the judiciary of the Islamic Republic. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='54010'> <reference source='https://x.com/UNHumanRights/status/1738516349159424251?s=20'> In a message on X, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights called the news of the imminent execution of Ahmad Reza Jalali on the charge of waging war against Islam "disturbing" and pointed out that this sentence was issued "despite an unfair trial and non-compliance with procedural standards." </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='54011'> <reference source='https://www.radiofarda.com/a/32749459.html'> In response to the publication of the forced confessions of her husband Ahmadreza Jalali from the Islamic Republic of Iran's state TV, Vida Mehrannia demanded his release by any means possible in an interview with Radio Farda. In a phone call with his wife, Vida Mehrannia, Mr. Jalali said that this video is from his solitary days, when the security officers had promised him freedom. In this video, Ahmadreza Jalali is accused of "spying for the Israeli intelligence service". According to Mrs. Mehrannia, these confessions were aired while there were no new developments in Mr. Jalali's case, and there is still no information about the fate of his retrial. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='60555'> <reference source='https://www.bbc.com/persian/articles/c03321yz0q7o'> Despite the exchange of prisoners between Iran and Sweden, Ahmadreza Jalali was not released from prison. According to the BBC report, during this exchange, Hamid Nouri, the former assistant prosecutor of Gohardasht prison, who was sentenced to life imprisonment for committing war crimes for participating in the mass executions of political prisoners in Iran in 1988, was exchanged with Johan Floderus and Saeed Azizi, Swedish citizens arrested in Iran. According to this report, Vida Mehrannia, the wife of Ahmad Reza Jalali, together with a group of Iranians, gathered in front of the Foreign Ministry building in Stockholm to protest the exchange of Hamid Nouri with Swedish citizens. The report quoted Mrs. Mehrannia as saying: > The Minister of Foreign Affairs and the Swedish government must answer why they did not do anything for the release and exchange of her husband and why he is still imprisoned in Iran. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='60556'> <reference source='https://tinyurl.com/3a4eywfe'> Vida Mehrannia, the wife of Ahmadreza Jalali, together with a group of Iranians gathered in Stockholm again to protest the exchange of Hamid Nouri with Swedish citizens. According to Voice of America, Mrs. Mehrannia said in this protest rally, "This was the best opportunity for the Swedish government to get Ahmad Reza released, but they didn't." According to her, if there was to be an exchange, all Swedish prisoners should have been included in it. Vida Mehrannia added: > Unfortunately, the Swedish government sat at the negotiating table and this was a black day for me and my family. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='60776'> <reference source='https://iranwire.com/fa/features/130725-%D8%A7%D8%AE%D8%AA%D8%B5%D8%A7%D8%B5%DB%8C-%D8%A7%D8%AD%D9%85%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%B6%D8%A7-%D8%AC%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%84%DB%8C-%DA%86%D8%B1%D8%A7-%D9%85%D9%86-%D8%B1%D8%A7-%D8%B1%D9%87%D8%A7-%DA%A9%D8%B1%D8%AF%DB%8C%D8%AF/'> In an audio file from Evin prison published by IranWire, he explains his situation in English to Swedish Prime Minister Olaf Kristerson and asks why he was left out during the exchange of Iranian-Swedish prisoners with Hamid Nouri. In this voice message, he says he is worried about his family, who are "heartbroken and sad": > I am talking to you from Evin prison. The terrible cell in which I have spent eight years and two months, almost 3000 days of my life. You left me in Evin prison with the great risk of execution. You did not fight for me, nor for overturning my death sentence." Mr. Jalali says that he is happy for the release of a Swedish citizen and a Swedish-Iranian citizen, but that his stay in Iran is "clear discrimination . </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='61090'> <reference source='https://www.hra-news.org/2024/hranews/a-49268/?tg_rhash=22a41dd9689763'> HRANA quoted Vida Mehrannia and wrote that Ahmad Reza Jalali went on a hunger strike to protest that his name was not included in the recent exchange of prisoners between Iran and Sweden. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='61089'> <reference source='https://www.barrons.com/news/iranian-swede-in-tehran-prison-announces-hunger-strike-2463741d'> Ahmad Reza Jalali's wife Vida Mehrannia said in a statement published by AFP that her husband thinks the only way the world can hear his voice is to go on a hunger strike. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='61091'> <reference source='https://www.hra-news.org/2024/hranews/a-49268/?tg_rhash=22a41dd9689763'> HRANA reported that he is in the fourth day of his hunger strike. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='61374'> <reference source='https://www.bbc.com/persian/articles/cd1985ndv0po'> According to the BBC, Vida Mehrannia, the wife of Ahmad Reza Jalali, reported his bad physical condition and said that her husband's life is in danger. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='61523'> <reference source='https://tinyurl.com/yudvx6mk'> The Voice of America quoted Vida Mehrannia and wrote that her meeting with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Sweden regarding the condition of her husband, Ahmad Reza Jalali, was disappointing, and the Swedish authorities did not give a clear explanation on how to follow up on her husband's case. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='61524'> <reference source='https://tinyurl.com/mr362fbe'> In an interview with Radiofarda, Vida Mehrannia said that Ahmadreza Jalali ended his hunger strike due to severe stomach problems following previous strikes, severe physical weakness, and low heart rate and blood pressure. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>