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– He said he probably won’t be able to call me again, says Vida Mehrannia, Djalali’s wife.
The last time she and her family heard from her incarcerated husband was a month ago. But on Tuesday morning, he suddenly got a call.
– At first I was glad to hear his voice again, but it passed quickly. He said he did not have much time, but only called him to say that he will be transferred to another prison where he will await his sentence in solitary confinement.
Djalali has been in the Iranian prison since 2016, when he was arrested by the Iranian intelligence service during a conference trip to the country.
He was charged with espionage and sentenced to death in 2017. Since then, he has been imprisoned primarily in the infamous Evin Prison, outside the capital Tehran.
I spoke to Iran
During the day, Swedish Foreign Minister Ann Linde (S) has been in contact with Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif. He writes on Twitter that Sweden is working to ensure that the verdict against Djalali is not enforced.
On Tuesday, Djalali’s wife contacted Ann Linde.
Ahmadreza Djalali’s wife, Vida Mehrannia, was here Tuesday and met with the consular unit of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Foreign Minister has also spoken with her by phone today, says Linde’s press secretary Andreas Enbuske .
TT: What was said in those conversations?
– I will not go into what was said in the conversations.
TT: Are you sure this has interrupted the execution or death threat against Djalali?
– I have no further comment, says Enbuske.
Adaktusson: “Malignant Warning”
According to Member of Parliament Lars Adaktusson (KD), who has followed the case for many years, the move is ominous.
– The prison to which you will be transferred is called Karai Prison, from what I understand it indicates that they will carry out the execution shortly. It’s terribly tragic, says Adaktusson.
– He realized that the death penalty was imminent, so he wanted to call and say goodbye. The only thing that can save you now is to make your case known.
When Vida Mehrannia received the message from her husband, there was a sense of helplessness, she says.
– I asked him what I could do for him. He said that I could get in touch with people in Sweden but that otherwise I couldn’t do anything else.
Powerlessness over the fate of the husband is devastating.
– It is an unreal feeling, it cannot be explained. During all these years I have had hope, now I don’t know if I have it.
Arrested on the way to lecture
Ahmadreza Djalali is a professor and researcher in disaster medicine and has worked at the Karolinska Institutet in Sweden. He was invited to lecture in Tehran when he was arrested.
His case has aroused great interest among human rights organizations and medical associations. Both the UN and the EU have demanded the release of Djalali.
Amnesty International immediately launches a so-called blitzkrieg campaign in which the human rights organization urges its members and the public to write, email or contact the responsible officials in Iran to put pressure on them.
Djalali, born in Iran, has lived in Sweden since 2009 and has Swedish citizenship. In Sweden there is his wife and two children.
Fixed: In a previous version, there was an incorrect statement about Vida Mehrannia’s contact with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Ida Vanhainen / TT
Niklas Svahn / TT
Foreign Minister Ann Linde (S). Stock Photography. Photo: Amir Nabizadeh / TT
Ahmadreza Djalali is a physician and researcher in disaster medicine. He is an Iranian and Swedish citizen. He has lived in Sweden with his wife and two children since 2009, with the exception of a couple of years in Italy, and had a permanent residence permit in Sweden before citizenship. Djalali defended her dissertation in disaster medicine at the Karolinska Institutet in 2012.
Djalali was arrested by the Iranian intelligence service on April 25, 2016, while he was in the country to attend seminars on emergency medicine at the invitation of a university in Iran. He had traveled to Iran on several previous occasions without any problem.
On December 26, 2017, Djalali went on a hunger strike after authorities tried to force him to sign an acknowledgment that he was a spy.
In October 2017, the Tehran prosecutor, without mentioning Ahmadreza Djalali, said that the “defendant” had had several meetings with the Mossad (Israel’s intelligence service) and had provided them with sensitive information about the military and nuclear facilities in They will go in exchange for money and residence permits in Sweden. Djalali was sentenced to death.
The evidence adduced against him is a confession that was allegedly forced under threat.
Source: Amnesty Sweden
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