Ahmadrezaa Jalali Transferred to Rajaei Shahr Prison in Karaj for Execution of Death Sentence
The defense lawyer of Ahmadrezaa Jalali, a dual-national prisoner sentenced to death, learned on Tuesday, December 1st, upon visiting the Evin Prosecutor’s Office, of an order to transfer his client to Rajaei Shahr Prison in Karaj for execution of the death sentence. Mr. Jalali, who was transferred on Tuesday, November 24th to one of the solitary cells in quarantine ward 209 of Evin Prison, has been deprived of visitation rights and phone contact to date.
According to Hrana, the news agency of the Network of Human Rights Activists in Iran, on Tuesday, December 1st, 2020, the defense lawyer of Ahmadrezaa Jalali, a dual-national prisoner sentenced to death, learned upon visiting the Evin Prosecutor’s Office of an order to transfer his client to Rajaei Shahr Prison in Karaj for execution of the death sentence.
Haleh Moussavian, Mr. Jalali’s defense lawyer, told Hrana in an interview, expressing concern about the possibility of executing his client’s death sentence: “This morning when I visited the Evin Prosecutor’s Office, I was told that Mr. Jalali’s detention period in quarantine ward 209 would be extended for another week, but around 2 p.m. at the end of business hours, I was informed again that Mr. Jalali would be transferred at 5 p.m. to Rajaei Shahr Prison in Karaj for execution of the death sentence.”
Hrana reported on Tuesday, November 24th about the transfer of Ahmadrezaa Jalali to the sentence execution unit of the Evin Prosecutor’s Office and ultimately to a solitary cell in quarantine ward 209 of Evin Prison. In Mr. Jalali’s transfer document, it was written that he would be held in quarantine for up to one week for execution of the death sentence procedures.
This dual-national prisoner informed his family through a phone call of his transfer to a solitary cell for execution of the death sentence and told his wife, Vida Mehrani, “This may be our last conversation.” At the same time, Ann Linde, Sweden’s Foreign Minister, tweeted about her conversation with Mohammad Javad Zarif, Iran’s Foreign Minister, saying that Sweden is trying to prevent the execution of Mr. Jalali’s death sentence.
He, who has been living in one of the solitary cells of quarantine ward 209 of Evin Prison until today, was deprived of visitation rights and phone contact.
On Wednesday, November 25th, United Nations experts expressed concern about the imminent execution of Ahmadrezaa Jalali, a dual-national prisoner sentenced to death in Evin Prison, and asked the authorities of the Islamic Republic to immediately halt the execution of this citizen. Javaid Rehman, the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iran, and Agnes Callamard, the UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, stated in part of this statement that, noting his conviction was based on forced confessions under torture and in an unfair trial: “The decision of the Iranian government and judiciary to execute Mr. Jalali must be condemned. This decision violates in multiple ways and particularly regarding the right to life the serious obligations Iran has under international human rights law.”
Ahmadrezaa Jalali, a university professor who traveled to Iran in May 2016 at the invitation of Tehran University, was arrested by security forces on charges of “waging war through espionage for Israel.” The Tehran Prosecutor accused Ahmadrezaa Jalali of “transferring information related to completely secret government projects in research, military, defense, and nuclear fields in exchange for financial payments and Swedish citizenship for himself and his family.” Mr. Jalali was ultimately convicted of espionage and sentenced to death, and this verdict was upheld by the Supreme Court in December 2017.
Ahmadrezaa Jalali, after completing his medical studies in Iran, worked at the Center for Natural Disasters. He emigrated to Sweden in 2009 to continue his studies and obtained his doctorate in this field there. He completed his post-doctorate in crisis medicine at the University of Piemonte Orientale in Italy and then settled in Sweden with his wife and two children.
Source: Hrana
