Sweden Urges Iran to Release Ahmadreza Djalali Immediately

Sweden's Minister for Foreign Affairs Maria Malmer Stenergard has had a bilateral meeting with Iran's counterpart Abbas Araghchi about the imprisoned Swedish-Iranian Ahmadreza Djalali, in connection with the fact that world leaders have gathered in New York at the UN General Assembly.

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Sweden Urges Iran to Release Ahmadreza Djalali Immediately
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In a comment to Expressen she states that she has repeated Sweden's demand that the KI researcher Ahmadreza Djalali be immediately released for humanitarian reasons.

Djalali has been imprisoned in Iran since 2016, and is sentenced to death. This summer, he was moved away from his fellow prisoners in connection with the war between Israel and Iran. Since then, neither his family nor Swedish representatives have received any sign of life from him, despite repeated demands for information about where he is and his circumstances.

"I take a serious view of the fact that Iran has not yet provided us with the requested information. This I have personally pointed out in conversations with Iran's Foreign Minister Araghchi here in New York" Malmer Stenergard writes to the newspaper.

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