The laureates urge the Release of the Djalali

The laureates urge the Release of the Djalali

121 nobel Laureates have signed a letter to Iran's supreme leader, ayatollah Ali Khamenei. They urge him to ensure that the profane Swedish-iranian doctor Ahmadreza Djalali is released.

Ahmadreza Djalali is a medical doctor and researcher in disaster medicine and has lived in Sweden with his wife and two children since 2009, with the exception of a couple of years in Italy. Since over two years back, he has been imprisoned in Iran, and in October last year, he was sentenced to death for allegedly spying for the Israeli government.

Now has 121 nobel Laureates have signed a letter authored by the biochemist Richard Roberts who was awarded the Nobel prize in medicine in 1993. The letter addressed directly to the ayatollah Khamenei to ask him to intervene personally to ensure that the Ahmadreza Djalali get the best care possible, treated humanely and fairly and are allowed to return home to his family.

Djalalis health has reportedly deteriorated during his time in prison. On June 19, was arrested, his lawyer Zeynab Taheri in Iran.

In February 2018 were granted Ahmadreza Djalali Swedish citizenship after having permanent residence for several years. The decision led to vigorous protests from Iran and the state department called up the ambassador of Sweden in the country.

Four of the united nations human rights experts has demanded that Iran immediately suspends the sentence of death against Djalali and Margot Wallström (S) has previously said that Sweden is pushing for the researcher's punishment not to be enforced.

Ahmadreza Djalali is a medical doctor and researcher in disaster medicine. He is an iranian and american citizens. He has lived in Sweden with his wife and two children since 2009, with the exception of a couple of years in Italy, and had pre-citizenship permanent residence permit in Sweden. Djalali received his doctorate in medicine at Karolinska institutet in 2012.

Djalali was arrested by the secret service in Iran on april 25, 2016, when he was in the country to participate in seminars on disaster medicine, on the invitation of universities in Iran. He had on several previous occasions traveled to Iran without any problems.

The 26 december started Djalali a hunger strike, since the authorities tried to force him to sign an acknowledgement that he is a spy.

In October last year claimed the public prosecutor in Tehran, without explicit mention Ahmadreza Djalali, to the \\

The evidence against him is a recognition that is allegedly extracted under threat.

Source: Amnesty Sweden