{"id":1445703,"date":"2023-12-25T02:45:00","date_gmt":"2023-12-25T07:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/?p=1445703"},"modified":"2023-12-25T02:45:00","modified_gmt":"2023-12-25T07:45:00","slug":"iran-shortly-expected-to-execute-swedish-citizen-accused-of-spying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/iran-shortly-expected-to-execute-swedish-citizen-accused-of-spying\/1445703\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran ‘Shortly’ Expected To Execute Swedish Citizen Accused Of Spying"},"content":{"rendered":"

Iran ‘Shortly’ Expected To Execute Swedish Citizen Accused Of Spying<\/span><\/p>\n

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Via Middle East Eye<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Iran\u00a0is “shortly” set to execute a dual Swedish-Iranian citizen accused of spying, according to the UN, after a Swedish court upheld the conviction of a former Iranian official.<\/p>\n

Ahmadreza Djalali, a Swedish-Iranian disaster medicine researcher, was arrested in Iran on suspicion of espionage in 2016. He\u00a0was accused in 2017 of having transmitted information to the Mossad <\/strong>– the Israeli intelligence services – on two people in charge of the Iranian nuclear program, which would have allowed their assassination between 2010 and 2012.<\/p>\n

Ahmadreza Djalali and his wife and child, via BBC<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

“Disturbing news that Dr. Ahmadreza Djalali could be shortly executed on charges of ‘enmity against God’,” the UN human rights office wrote\u00a0on X (formerly Twitter).<\/p>\n

There have been concerns that the decision by a Swedish appeals court to confirm the conviction of former Iranian prison official Hamid Noury this week could threaten the safety of Swedish prisoners in Iran<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Noury stood accused of involvement in the mass execution of thousands of mainly left-wing prisoners in Iran in 1988, towards the end of the war with Iraq.<\/p>\n

The 62-year-old was convicted last year of “grave breaches of international humanitarian law and murder” over his alleged role in a purge that saw at least 5,000 prisoners killed<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Amnesty International has warned that “mounting evidence indicates that Iranian authorities are threatening to carry out Ahmadreza Djalali’s execution in retaliation<\/strong> for their unmet demands to pervert the course of justice in Sweden”.<\/p>\n

“The cruel toying with Ahmadreza Djalali’s life immediately after a Swedish court of appeals upheld [Noury’s] conviction and life sentence… heightens concerns that Iranian officials are holding Ahmadreza Djalali hostage to compel Sweden into a prisoner swap,” said Diana Eltahawy, Amnesty’s deputy director for the Middle East and North Africa, in a statement.<\/p>\n

ICYI: The United Nations warns that an Iranian-Swedish citizen is facing imminent execution in #Iran<\/a> after a Swedish court upheld the conviction of a former Iranian prison official. #Sweden<\/a> https:\/\/t.co\/r12919ly2k<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Al Arabiya English (@AlArabiya_Eng) December 24, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n

Iran has denied that there is any link<\/strong> between Noury’s conviction and the planned execution of any Swedish prisoners.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span>
\nSun, 12\/24\/2023 – 21:45<\/span><\/p>\n

\u200bhttps:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/geopolitical\/iran-shortly-expected-execute-swedish-citizen-accused-spying<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n

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