To the President of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Dr. Hassan Rouhani, This is Ahmadreza Djalali, a researcher and lecturer affiliated to universities in Sweden, Italy and Belgium, who is detained in Iran by the Ministry of Intelligence since April 2016. Firstly, I was accused of having a relation with an enemy country, and then through an unjust, illegal, anti-Islamic and ... Continue Reading>>
Kavous Seyed Emami, an Iranian-Canadian Environmentalist, Dies in Tehran Prison
Kavous Seyed Emami, an environmentalist, professor of sociology at Tehran's Imam Sadegh University and Founder of the Persian Wildlife Heritage Foundation (Iran's most prominent non-governmental organization focussed on the environment) was arrested on January 24th by intelligence agents, along with several other environmental activists and charged with espionage. His wife received a phone ... Continue Reading>>
Supreme Court of Iran Confirms Death Sentence of Djalali
The Iranian Supreme Court upheld the death sentence of Ahmadreza Djalali. Iran has accused him of spying for Israel. Djalali was an emergency medicine professor residing in Sweden with his family. He was invited to present a training on emergency and disaster medicine in Iran, as he had done previously. On April 2016 he was arrested and charged with spying. On October 21 he was ... Continue Reading>>
Death Sentence Against Ahmadreza Djalali Provisionally Suspended While Under Review By The Iranian Supreme Court
It was just announced in The Brussels Times that the death sentence against Iranian-Swedish Professor Ahmadreza Djalali has been provisionally suspended while under review by the Iranian Supreme Court. A Supreme Court judge is scheduled to review his case next month. Djalali's attorney, Zeinab Taheri, noted that the file is currently under investigation by a deputy prosecutor and his assistant ... Continue Reading>>
Ahmadreza Djalali’s Case Scheduled For Hearing By Supreme Court; Desperately In Need of Medical Care
Ahmadreza Djalali's case has been scheduled for a new hearing at the Supreme Court Branch 33 in Qom City. There is no specific date set, as yet, for this hearing. His health has seriously deteriorated. He is in need of urgent medical care but was refused hospitalization. Attached are letters from Dr. Djalali to the judiciary and one from his mother, as well. Letter from Djalali to the ... Continue Reading>>
CCS Requests Release of Iranian Students
The Committee of Concerned Scientists, in a letter to the President of Iran, Hassan Rouhani, has requested the release of the students in Iran who participated in the recent protest demonstrations. Additionally, CCS has asked that their families be notified of their location and status and that they receive due process. January 14, 2018 Hassan Rouhani President of the Islamic Republic of ... Continue Reading>>
Iranian Security Forces Preventatively Arrest More Than 40 Students During Protests
According to the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI), more than 40 Iranian university students were arrested in protests taking place in Iran between December 30, 2017 and January 4, 2018. It has been reported that most of the students detained are members of university trade unions or work for student publications. Most of the students arrested did take part in the recent peaceful ... Continue Reading>>
UN Human Rights Experts Call on Iran to Nullify Djalali’s Sentence and Release Him
United Nations human rights experts have called on Iran to reverse the death sentence of Dr. Ahmadreza Djalali and to release him, finding the deprivation of his liberty arbitrary. The experts deplored the public airing of Dr. Djalali’s apparent “confession”, especially in the light of the coercion allegations, and are concerned by the lack of information available during the trial and apparent ... Continue Reading>>
Forced Confessions of Innocents Common Practice in Iran Says The Center for Human Rights in Iran
The Center for Human Rights in Iran reported that "forced confessions to validate the prosecution of individuals that (Iran) has no evidence against has been used for decades." The CHRI is calling for an immediate suspension of Dr. Djalali's death sentence and a judicial review of his case that fully incorporates due process. The article by ... Continue Reading>>
Organizations Across the Globe Call on Iran to Reverse Death Sentence for Ahmadreza Djalali
Many organizations have called on the Iranian government and President Rouhani to reconsider the death sentence for Dr. Ahmadreza Djalali. Dr. Djalali is a physician and professor of Emergency and Disaster Medicine. He was arrested in Iran while conducting a training to which he had been invited (and had done on other occasions, without incident). He was accused of espionage and held for long ... Continue Reading>>