Ahmadreza Djalali suffered a heart attack on Thursday evening and was transferred to the hospital section of Evin Prison in Tehran, but was told that he would not be able to see a cardiologist until then, says Vida Mehrannia, who received a brief phone call from her husband on Friday morning.
He told me that he had heart problems and that he had to wait for care because the hospital section was closed, says Vida Mehrannia and continues:
After 7 o'clock, he was allowed to come to the clinic where they told him that he had suffered a heart attack, but that there was no cardiologist available until Sunday because it's a weekend in Iran.
"They must act"
Vida Mehrannia emphasizes that Ahmadreza Djalali's health is rapidly getting worse and that he must receive adequate care without delay because his life is in imminent danger.
She urges Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson (M) and Foreign Minister Maria Malmer Stenergard (M) to act.
They must act. He has been sitting in prison for nine years, his health is in danger and Iran must release him as soon as possible, says Vida Mehrannia.
Remained in prison"
Djalali described as recently as in April in a recording from the prison that he was "close to the breaking point".
He simultaneously directed harsh criticism towards "those who were negligent or indifferent all these years and left me behind when I could have come home", an allusion to when Swedes Johan Floderus and Saeed Azizi were released last year in exchange for the war crimes convict Hamid Noury.
This while Djalali – who became a Swedish citizen in 2018 – remained in prison.
Foreign Minister Maria Malmer Stenergard (M) writes in a comment to TT that she "has taken part of the serious information" about Djalali having suffered a heart attack.
Sweden has been in contact with representatives of Iran regarding the information and has put forward demands that Djalali must receive the care he needs as soon as possible, according to Malmer Stenergard.
"Ahmadreza Djalali must be immediately released on humanitarian grounds so that he can be reunited with his family", she writes further.
