Iran may postpone the execution scheduled for May of the Iranian-Swedish academic Ahmedreza Djalali sentenced to death, said Monday, May 16 the spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
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The Iranian news agency Isna had indicated on May 4 that the researcher in emergency medicine, accused of spying on behalf of Israel, a sworn enemy of the Islamic Republic, would be executed no later than May 21.
"
Ahmedreza Djalali's conviction is final, as announced by the courts
," Foreign Affairs spokesman Said Khatibzadeh told reporters on Monday.
Asked whether the academic and his lawyers had asked for a review of the sentence, Said Khatibzadeh replied: “
They asked that the execution be postponed to another time.
"
This is being examined (...) the courts will obviously follow the case
," he added.
Enrique Mora in Iran
The representative of the European Union for the talks on the Iranian nuclear dossier, Enrique Mora, said on Friday that he had urged Iran to release Ahmadreza Djalali "
for humanitarian reasons
".
“
I expressed to Tehran the need not to execute #AhmadrezaDjalali and asked for his release on humanitarian grounds,
” he tweeted, after a two-day visit to Iran which ended on Friday.
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Ahmadreza Djalali, who was based in Stockholm where he worked for the Karolinska Medical Institute, was arrested during a visit to Iran in 2016. In February 2018, while in custody, Sweden granted the academic Swedish citizenship .
Sentenced to death in 2017, Ahmadreza Djalali was accused of having transmitted to the Mossad, the Israeli intelligence services, information on two officials of the Iranian nuclear program, which would have allowed their assassination between 2010 and 2012. In March 2021, the UN human rights experts had called on Tehran to release Ahmadreza Djalali, denouncing "
cruel and inhuman treatment
".
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