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IRAN - Ahmadreza Djalali Beaten by Evin Prison Officials
April 9, 2022: Ahmadreza Djalali Beaten by Evin Prison Officials
As he is still banned from contact with his family, they are unable to determine the extent of his injuries.
Dr Ahmadreza Djalali, an Iranian-Swedish scientist on death row in Evin Prison is still banned from contacting his family and “was beaten in the prison infirmary on April 4” according to sources.
According to information obtained by Iran Human Rights, Ahmadreza Djalali is being held in poor conditions and banned from contact with his family.
Some of his cellmates have reported that “Ahmadreza Djalali was beaten in the prison infirmary on April 4.”
An informed source told Iran Human Rights: “Ahmadreza protested when he realised that the infirmary staff were stealing his medication and asked them to return them. They ignored his request and proceeded to beat him up.”
Ahmadreza Djalali who had travelled to Iran at the official invitation of the University of Tehran, was arrested by Ministry of Intelligence agents on 24 April 2016 and spent three months in the Ministry’s detention centre.
Initially charged with “collaborating with hostile states”, he was later charged with “efsad-fil-arz (corruption on earth) through espionage for Israel” by the Revolutionary Court of Tehran which was also upheld by the Supreme Court.
More than once the Iranian authorities have "filtered" the news that his execution was imminent. Several international observers believe the allegations of espionage in favor of Israel are unlikely, and equate the "kidnapping" of Djalali to the many other cases of "kidnapping" of foreign citizens or citizens with dual nationality that the Iranian government then uses as an instrument of pressure in negotiations. against sanctions, or to obtain the release of their secret service agents arrested abroad. On 10 March (see HoC on that date) the news that Sweden, after having made the terms of preventive detention expire, gave up trying two suspected Iranian secret agents, sending them back to their homeland.
On his case see also HoC 3/12/2022, 14/05/2021, 27/04/2021, 15/04/2021, 30/03/2021, 18/03/2021, 18/12/2020, 16/12/2020, 02/12/2020, 01/12/2020, 25/11/2020, 24/11/2020, 18/12/2019, 25/08/2019, 21/08/2019, 03/08/2019.
https://iranhr.net/en/articles/5155/ (Source: IHR, HoC)
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