"At the summons, demands were made that Ahmadreza Djalali must be released immediately for humanitarian reasons so that he can be reunited with his family", writes the Ministry for Foreign Affairs in a press release.
The Ministry for Foreign Affairs also writes that they have demanded that Djalali must receive the care "he so obviously is in need of" and once again expressed protests against the death penalty.
His lawyer saw him and assessed that he will not survive this. He was just skin and bones. His blood pressure and pulse were very low, says Vida Mehrannia, Ahmadreza Djalali's wife, to TV4 News.
Djalali, a doctor and researcher at the Karolinska Institute, has been imprisoned in the notorious Evin Prison in Iran since he was arrested in 2016, accused of espionage.
In October 2017, he was sentenced to death.
When Iran released the Swedish citizens Johan Floderus and Saeed Azizi in June last year, Ahmadreza Djalali was not included in the prisoner exchange, where Sweden released Hamid Noury, who was sentenced to life imprisonment for war crimes.
I was left in a terrible situation, with an immediate risk of being executed. It seems like I am considered a second-class citizen, due to my dual citizenship, said Djalali in January this year to SVT News in an audio recording.
At the same time, he stated that his health is now deteriorating and that he suffers from, among other things, stomach ulcers, gallstones, and heart rhythm disturbances that could lead to cardiac arrest.
