Ahmad Reza Jalali's imminent execution risk until the end of May

ISNA news agency, citing informed sources, reported that the sentence of Ahmad Reza Jalali, a dual-citizen prisoner sentenced to death in Evin Prison, will be carried out by the end of May this year.

According to HRANA News Agency, ISNA News Agency, citing informed sources, announced that the death sentence of Ahmad Reza Jalali, a prisoner with dual citizenship, will be carried out by the end of May this year.

According to this report, citing informed sources, Mr. Jalali's death sentence has been ordered to be carried out after being confirmed by the Supreme Court.

Ahmadreza Jalali, a university professor who had traveled to Iran in May 2016 at the invitation of Tehran University, was arrested by security forces on charges of “committing war through espionage for Israel.” The Tehran prosecutor has accused Ahmadreza Jalali of “transferring information related to the regime’s top-secret projects in the fields of research, military, defense, and nuclear energy in exchange for receiving payments and Swedish citizenship for himself and his family.”

Mr. Jalali was ultimately sentenced to death on charges of espionage, and this sentence was upheld by the Supreme Court in December 2017.

On December 24, 2020, HRANA reported that Ahmad Reza Jalali was transferred to the Evin Prosecution Service and eventually to solitary confinement in the quarantine ward of Ward 209 of Evin Prison. Mr. Jalali’s transfer form stated that he would be kept in quarantine for a week to carry out the formalities of executing his death sentence. In an interview in January 2020, his defense lawyer, Hilaleh Moussavian, referred to the suspension of his client’s execution and said that Mr. Jalali was being held in quarantine in Ward 209 of Evin Prison and was denied permission to visit or make phone calls. He was eventually transferred to the general ward of Evin Prison in Farvardin 1402.

After completing his medical studies in Iran, Ahmadreza Jalali worked at the Natural Disaster Center. He immigrated to Sweden in 2009 to continue his studies, where he obtained a doctorate in the field. He completed his postdoctoral studies in crisis medicine at the University of Piedmont in Italy, and then settled in Sweden with his wife and two children.

Source: HRANA