Djalalis asks for help from NATO and EU member countries
Stockholm – The situation for Swedish-Iranian Ahmadreza Djalali, who is sentenced to death in Iran, is critical, his wife reports in a letter to Sweden’s Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson.
Vida Mehrannia asks Kristersson to raise his case during the NATO summit that begins in The Hague on Tuesday. She also appeals to the EU member states.
Djalali has been moved from his cell in Evin prison and has been asked to pack his belongings. It is unclear where he has been taken, and whether the transport is part of carrying out the execution or if prisoners are being moved for security reasons related to the war between Iran and Israel.
In the letter, Mehrannia asks the Prime Minister to urge all NATO partners and EU member states to “do everything in their power to ensure that all sides in the conflict provide maximum protection to political prisoners held by the Islamic Republic… and demand their immediate release.”
Several political prisoners, like Djalali, who have been arbitrarily accused of spying for Israel, have been executed in recent days.
Djalali was imprisoned by Iran in 2016 when he was in the country to participate in a seminar on disaster medicine.
The EU Parliament recently demanded that Iran release him immediately.
(June 24)
