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European University Association Requests Reversal of Charges Against Dr. Ahmandreza Djalali and His Immediate Release. Additionally, the Entire Flemish Parliament Approved an Urgent Resolution in Support of Djalali.

November 21, 2017

The European University Association, the largest and most comprehensive organization representing universities in Europe, has written Ayatollah Khamenei requesting a reversal of Dr. Djalali’s sentence and his immediate release.

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Additionally, the entire Flemish Parliament approved an urgent resolution in support of Ahmadreza Djalali. (Statement below)

Flemish Parliament backs resolution on Iranian academic condemned to death

10th November 2017

The Flemish Parliament on Wednesday approved an urgent resolution on Ahmadreza Djalali

An Iranian professor who works at the Flemish Free University of Brussels, the VUB. Prof Ahmadreza Djalali has been condemned to death on charges of collaboration with an enemy country.

All five main Flemish political parties tabled the resolution in the Flemish and in the federal parliaments. The hope is that their actions will convince the Iranian authorities not to carry out the death sentence.

“For years now Iran has been trying to establish good relations with the EU” says Flemish Christian democrat lawmaker Ward Kennes. “At a time when the US is again eager to impose sanctions against Iran, the country is looking towards Europe more than ever. We wish to dispatch a clear signal. Good relations cannot be established if scientists are sentenced to death.”

“Iran is experiencing enormous population growth and consequently requires a lot of scientific expertise. The country is eager to co-operate with our universities. Of course, this will not be possible, if the sentence is executed.”

The resolution approved by the Flemish Parliament asks for EU sanctions against Iran to be extended if the death penalty is carried out, wants the matter raised in all Belgian contacts with Iran and urges Belgium to raise the matter with the EU.

Professor Ahmadreza Djalali works for the VUB, but one day he failed to turn up for work. He was tracked down in an Iranian jail cell where he had ended up after visiting family in Iran. Prof Djalali has been in jail for seven months now.

VUB rector Caroline Pauwels: “All we know he’s accused of co-operating with enemy states, but it’s not stipulated which ones. We do have cooperation with the US.”

Filed Under: CCS Cases, Iran Tagged With: Death Sentence, Disaster Medicine, Djalali, Physician

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David Baltimore, California Institute of Technology*

Alan J. Bard, University of Texas

Jacob Bigeleisen (deceased), SUNY, Stony Brook

Raoul Bott (deceased), Harvard University

Owen Chamberlain (deceased), University of California, Berkeley

Stanley Deser, Brandeis University

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Stuart Rice, University of Chicago

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Myriam Sarachick, City College of New York

Harold Scheraga, Cornell University

Sylvan Schweber (deceased), Brandeis University

Maxine Singer, Carnegie Institution of Washington

Alfred I. Tauber, Boston University

Steven Weinberg, University of Texas, Austin*

Myrna Weissman, Columbia University

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