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Help stop the imminent execution of Swedish-Iranian doctor

Call on Iranian authorities to immediately halt the sickening execution of Ahmadreza Djalali.

Ahmadreza Djalali, a Swedish-Iranian medical doctor and academic, was on a business trip to Iran when he was arrested on 26 April 2016. He is being held in the notorious Evin prison.

For three months he was placed in solitary confinement with no access to a lawyer. He was subjected to torture in order to force him to ‘confess’ to being a spy.

His interrogators threatened to kill or harm him and his children. He said he was made to read out “confessions” pre-written by his interrogators in front of a video camera. These were then played on Iranian TV which presented him as a spy.

On 1st December 2020, in a two minute phone call to his wife in Sweden, he told her that he was being transferred to another prison for his execution to be carried out.

There was a global outcry, and his execution was halted. But Ahmadreza continued to be tortured and held in solitary confinement.

We must act now - and fast.

We’re urgently calling on Iran to immediately halt Ahmadreza’s execution. His conviction and sentence should be quashed and he should be released.

Email the Iranian authorities now and call on them to halt Ahmadreza's execution - there’s no time to waste.

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Dear Gholamhossein Mohseni Eje,

Ahmadreza Djalali is a Swedish-Iranian doctor and academic arrested in Iran in April 2016. He was sentenced to death for “corruption on earth” (efsad-e fel-arz) in October 2017 after a grossly unfair trial before Branch 15 of the Revolutionary Court in Tehran. The court relied primarily on “confessions” that Ahmadreza says were obtained under torture and other ill-treatment while he was held in prolonged solitary confinement without access to a lawyer. These included threats to execute him, kill or otherwise harm his children, who live in Sweden, and his mother, who lives in Iran. Amnesty International has consistently held that the offence of “corruption on earth” fails to meet requirements for clarity and precision needed in criminal law and breaches the principle of legality and legal certainty. On 9 December 2018, his lawyers learned that Branch 1 of the Supreme Court had upheld his death sentence without granting them an opportunity to file their defence submissions on his behalf. At least three requests for a judicial review of Ahmadreza Djalali’s case have been rejected by the Supreme Court. Ahmadreza Djalali has several health conditions for which he has not received adequate medical treatment and medication.

I ask you to immediately stop any plans to execute Ahmadreza Djalali, quash his conviction and sentence, immediately release him and ensure he is provided with adequate medical care. Ahmadreza must be protected from torture and other ill-treatment, and I call on you to order a prompt, independent, effective, and impartial investigation into his allegations of torture and other ill-treatment.

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