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Swedish-Iranian doctor imprisoned in Iran to be executed this month
[Rudaw] A Swedish-Iranian doctor arrested on charges of alleged spying for the Israeli government will be executed within the month, the semi-official ISNA news agency reported on Wednesday.Ahmed Reza Jalali, an expert in emergency medicine, was arrested during an academic visit to Iran  ...The nation is noted for spontaneouslytaking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militiasto extend the regime's influence... in October 2016 and subsequently sentenced to death the next year on spying charges. "The death sentence ...the barbaric practice of sentencing a murderer to be punished for as long as his/her/its victim is dead... of Ahmad Reza Jalali has been placed on the agenda and this sentence will be carried out by the end of May at the latest," ISNA reported. According to the news outlet, Jalali is accused of the liquidation of two nuclear scientists in Iran after he allegedly supplied the Mossad (Israeli intelligence) with information about their rival's nuclear program. Jalali's execution order follows the conclusion of a former Iranian official's trial in Sweden, suspected of committing war crimes in Iran more than 30 years ago. Iranian national Hamid Noury, 60, is on trial for "committing grave war crimes and murder in Iran during 1988," Swedish prosecutors announced on July 27. Noury had served as assistant to the deputy governor of Gohardasht prison in Karaj, near the Iranian capital of Tehran, when an estimated 5,000 prisoners were killed across the country, following an order from then Lord High Potentate and Supreme Leader of All He Surveys of Iran Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. Swedish courts are trying Nouri based on the principle of universal jurisdiction which allows them to tackle grave crimes regardless of where they were committed and if found guilty, Nouri faces a maximum life sentence behind bars. Sweden's foreign minister on Wednesday slammed Iran's decision to carry out Jalili's execution. Jalali was granted Swedish citizenship while in prison in 2018, a move that according to ISNA, was done "in order to put pressure on the Iranian judicial system." Arrests of dual-nationals in Iran are not uncommon. Iranian authorities have arrested dozens of foreign nationals in recent years, mainly on espionage charges. Many of the arrests, including British-Iranian prisoners Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and Anoosheh Ashoori, have been used as bargaining chips by the Iranian government. London in March paid Tehran an over £400-million debt, equivalent to over $500 million which allowed Zaghari-Ratcliffe and Ashoori to return home after many years of imprisonment on charges of attempting to "topple the Iranian government" and "spying for Israel's Mossad" respectively. Related: Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: 2022-03-23 British-US-Iranian citizen held in Tehran is ‘on hunger strike,’ sister says Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: 2022-03-21 Elderly Iranian-Australian unable to access medicine dies in Tehran’s Evin prison Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: 2022-03-21 Iran returns dual US-UK citizen to prison after brief furlough Related: Anoosheh Ashoori: 2022-03-23 British-US-Iranian citizen held in Tehran is ‘on hunger strike,’ sister says Anoosheh Ashoori: 2022-03-21 Elderly Iranian-Australian unable to access medicine dies in Tehran’s Evin prison Anoosheh Ashoori: 2022-03-21 Iran returns dual US-UK citizen to prison after brief furlough Related: Hamid Noury: 2021-12-06 Say the Name That Frightens Iran’s Rulers Hamid Noury: 2021-11-25 Iranian ex-prison official slams ‘lies and accusations’ in Sweden war crimes trial Hamid Noury: 2021-08-11 Iranian official on trial in Sweden for war crimes tied to new president Raisi Posted by: trailing wife 2022-05-05 |
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