25 June 2025 :

June 23, 2025 - IRAN. concern for the fate of Ahmadreza Djalali

In recent days, the Islamic Republic has taken steps to transfer prisoners, including Ahmadreza Djalali, to undisclosed locations. In a phone call from prison, Ahmadreza informed relatives that he was being transferred. Several political prisoners including Ali Younesi were transferred to unknown locations in the first days of the war. No information is available about Ali’s whereabouts. The attempts to transfer political prisoners have intensified after the Israeli attack on the Evin prison earlier today.

Referring to Ahmadreza Djalali’s death sentence on charges of efsad-fil-arz (corruption on earth) through espionage for Israel, Iran Human Rights expressed concern about the planned transfer and called on the international community, especially the Swedish government, where Djalali holds citizenship, to take immediate action to prevent his execution.

IHRNGO Director, Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam said: “Ahmadreza Djalali and other death row prisoners are at serious risk of execution. The international community, the European Union, and countries that have diplomatic relations with the Islamic Republic must work to save the lives of these prisoners.”

On 13 June when Israel attacked Iran, IHR warned of the execution of defendants accused of espionage for Israel. Since then, at least three men have been hanged for the charges in Iran.

Ahmadreza Djalali is a dual Swedish-Iranian national who was a physician crisis management researcher working at the Karolinska Institutet, a medical university near Stockholm. Ahmadreza had travelled to Iran at the official invitation of the Universities of Tehran and Shiraz to participate in a crisis management workshop when he was arrested in April 2016.

He was transferred to Ward 209 of Evin Prison where he spent three months under physical and psychological torture to extract confessions. Charged with “collaborating with hostile States”, he was later sentenced to “efsad-fil-arz (corruption on earth) through espionage for Israel” after a grossly unfair trial by the Revolutionary Court of Tehran without due process. The charge was also upheld by the Supreme Court.

Ahmadreza has spent more than nine years on death row, during which he has been transferred to the gallows to exert pressure on Western countries in Iran’s hostage diplomacy.

https://iranhr.net/en/articles/7681/
https://hengaw.net/en/news/2025/06/article-97