The past few months, Iran has increasingly issued, confirmed and carried out death sentences against people accused of spying for Israel, according to the Norway-based organization Iran Human Rights (IHR).
The organization lists ten people who have been sentenced to death, and warns that there is a serious risk that they will be executed.
One of them is the Swedish-Iranian disaster doctor Ahmadreza Djalali, who was imprisoned by Iran in 2016 when he was in the country to participate in a seminar on disaster medicine.
Djalali has conducted research at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm. He became a Swedish citizen in 2018, but when Sweden and Iran carried out a controversial prisoner exchange in 2024, he was left behind in the notorious Evin prison, where he has been sitting for nine years.
