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Amnesty condemns death sentence for Iran academic accused of spying for Israel
[IsraelTimes] Human rights group Lawyers for Ahmadreza Djalali, an emergency medicine specialist resident in Sweden, were informed Saturday that the Supreme Court had upheld his sentence "without granting them an opportunity to file their defence submissions," Amnesty said in a statement. Djalali was a visiting professor at Belgium’s Vrije University when he was tossed in the calaboose Book 'im, Mahmoud! during a trip to Iran in April 2016. He was accused of passing information to Israel’s Mossad intelligence service during the negotiations that led to Iran’s nuclear deal with world powers in 2015. Posted by: trailing wife 2017-12-13 |
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