(ANSA) - ROME, JAN 14 - Amnesty International Italia returns to reaffirm its request to release Ahmadreza Djalali, the Iranian-Swedish doctor sentenced to death in Iran, on his 50th birthday.
"For Ahmadreza Djalali it is a dramatic birthday in prison. One of the worst birthdays imaginable. With a noose that has been badly company since 21 October 2017, the day of the sentence to be hanged to death by an Iranian court", said Riccardo Noury, spokesman for Amnesty International Italia, specifying that "today, 14 January 2022, Ahmadreza Djalali spends his fiftieth birthday locked in a tiny cell infested with insects, away from his wife and two children who live in Stockholm".
Noury recalls that "Djalali, a scientist born in Iran who lives in Sweden, was arrested in April 2016 while he was in his country of origin for work reasons and accused of having spied on Israel's behalf" and that "he is not no evidence has ever been presented. "
"In a letter written from prison, in August 2017, he accused the Iranian authorities of wanting to avenge himself for their refusal to collaborate in collecting confidential information - continues the note -.
Amnesty International Italia and the University of PiemonteOrientale, where Djalali spent a long period of research, they continue to ask for the release of a passionate man of science ".
(HANDLE).