Report: An Iranian-Swedish citizen accused of spying for Israel is executed on May 21
Jalali is an Iranian doctor from Stockholm who was arrested in Iran in April 2016 and accused of passing information to Israel with the aim of helping assassinate senior nuclear scientists
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04/05/2022
Wednesday, 04 May 2022, 11:57 Updated: 12:03
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Ahmad Raza Jalali, a Swedish-Iranian citizen convicted of spying in Tehran, was killed on May 21, the Iranian news agency ISNA reported today (Wednesday), according to sources.
Jalali is an Iranian doctor from Stockholm who was arrested in Iran in April 2016 and accused of passing information to Israel with the aim of helping assassinate senior nuclear scientists.
Jalali traveled to Iran for business purposes in 2016, was arrested and sent to Ewen Prison.
Amnesty International said he had been held in solitary confinement for three months and had been tortured.
Amnesty International said in an August letter from Jalali prison that he was being held in custody for refusing to make a pilgrimage to Iran.
In 2017, he appeared on state television and admitted to passing information to the Mossad on Iranian military installations and nuclear scientists, two of whom were killed in 2010 - nuclear engineer Majid Shahariri and physicist Massoud Ali Muhammadi.
However, it is unclear whether Jalali spoke under threats or admitted voluntarily.
Human rights groups claim that Iran is depriving suspects of a fair trial.
In 2018 Sweden granted Jalali Swedish citizenship and demanded that he not be executed.
The judicial system in the Islamic Republic tends to declare from time to time the death penalty for those convicted of espionage offenses, although it is not clear whether they are indeed implemented in the end.
Israel has been repeatedly accused by Iran of eliminating senior officials and cyber-attacks against its nuclear program, but Jerusalem has maintained ambiguity on the issue.
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