Help save Swedish-Iranian doctor from imminent execution

Call on Iranian authorities to immediately halt the sickening execution of Ahmadreza Djalali.

Ahmadreza Djalali, a Swedish-Iranian medical doctor and academic, was on a business trip to Iran when he was arrested on 26 April 2016. He is being held in the notorious Evin prison.

For three months he was placed in solitary confinement with no access to a lawyer. He was subjected to torture in order to force him to ‘confess’ to being a spy.

His interrogators threatened to kill or harm him and his children. He said he was made to read out “confessions” pre-written by his interrogators in front of a video camera. These were then played on Iranian TV which presented him as a spy.

On 1st December 2020, in a two minute phone call to his wife in Sweden, he told her that he was being transferred to another prison for his execution to be carried out.

We have since received information that “an order from higher up” meant his execution has been delayed by one month.

We must act now - and fast.

We’re urgently calling on Iran to immediately halt Ahmadreza’s execution. His conviction and sentence should be quashed and he should be released.

Email the Iranian authorities now to help save Ahmadreza - there’s no time to waste.

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On 24 November 2020, Ahmadreza Djalali, his family and lawyer were told that the authorities had issued an order for his death sentence to be carried out.

The date was not specified but it was said the execution will be carried out no later than 1 December. On 1 December, it came to our attention that the execution has been halted for 1 month. We now call on you to ensure that the sentence is halted indefinitely and Ahmadreza is immediately released with his conviction and sentence quashed. 
 
Ahmadreza Djalali is a Swedish-Iranian doctor arrested in Iran in April 2016. He was sentenced to death for “corruption on earth” (efsad-e fel-arz) in October 2017 after a grossly unfair trial before Branch 15 of the Revolutionary Court in Tehran. The court relied primarily on “confessions” that Ahmadreza says were obtained under torture and other ill-treatment while he was held in prolonged solitary confinement without access to a lawyer. These included threats to execute him, kill or otherwise harm his children, who live in Sweden, and his mother, who lives in Iran. Amnesty International has consistently held that the offence of “corruption on earth” fails to meet requirements for clarity and precision needed in criminal law and breaches the principle of legality and legal certainty. On 9 December 2018, his lawyers learned that Branch 1 of the Supreme Court had upheld his death sentence without granting them an opportunity to file their defence submissions on his behalf. At least two requests for a judicial review of Ahmadreza Djalali’s case have been rejected by the Supreme Court.

I ask you to immediately halt plans to execute Ahmadreza Djalali, quash his conviction and sentence, and immediately provide him access to his family and lawyers. I further call on you to release Ahmadreza Djalali immediately and accord him an enforceable right to compensation - as per the recommendation of the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention in his case. Pending his release, ensure that he is protected from further torture and other ill-treatment.

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Email Iran now calling on them to halt Ahmadreza's execution and save his life

Help save Swedish-Iranian doctor from imminent execution

Call on Iranian authorities to immediately halt the sickening execution of Ahmadreza Djalali.

Email the Iranian authorities now to help save Ahmadreza - there’s no time to waste.

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