Iran excluded Djalali, who has been on death row since 2017, from the swap. His son, born in Sweden, has spent two-thirds of his life without a father. Djalali was denied the ability to make calls to Sweden due to the recording’s publication. Ahmadreza Djalali, an Iranian-Swedish academic who has been on death row in … Read more
The wife of Iranian-Swedish citizen Ahmadreza Djalali, who is accused of espionage and faces execution in Iran, called on the European Union on Saturday to secure her husband’s release. “I hope that the EU can really act decisively in order to bring Ahmadreza home,” Vida Mehrannia said according to excerpts of an interview on Germany’s … Read more
The Iranian judiciary rejected Tuesday the possibility of a prisoner swap in which a former Iranian official on trial in Stockholm for war crimes would be exchanged for a Swedish-Iranian academic on death row. The two cases “have nothing to do with each other… as a result, there is no question of an exchange,” said … Read more
