According to reports, a Swedish-Iranian person sentenced to death in Iran on allegations of espionage for Israeli intelligence will be executed this month, according to Iran’s semi-official ISNA news agency.
Ahmadreza Djalali, a disaster medicine doctor and researcher, was detained in 2016 during an academic visit to Iran and is scheduled to be killed on May 21, according to ISNA.
The news comes as Hamid Noury, a former Iranian prosecutor captured by Swedish authorities in 2019, faces life in prison on allegations of international war crimes and human rights violations.
Noury is accused of playing a leading role in the killing of political prisoners executed on government orders at the Gohardasht prison in Karaj, Iran, in 1988.
The Swedish foreign ministry did not immediately comment on the ISNA report.
Under Swedish law, courts can try Swedish citizens and other nationals for crimes against international law committed abroad.
Iran’s foreign ministry summoned the Swedish ambassador on Monday to convey the Islamic Republic’s objection “to the baseless and fabricated accusations that the Swedish prosecutor made against Iran during Noury’s court case,” ISNA reported in an earlier article.
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