Amnesty International: Iran Upholds Death Sentence For Academic
Amnesty International says Iran's Supreme Court has upheld a death sentence against an Iranian-Swedish academic who has been convicted of espionage. Ahmadreza Djalali, a researcher at Stockholm’s Karolinska Institute, was arrested during a visit for a conference in Tehran for espionage and "enmity with God" -- a crime which in Iran can result in the death penalty. He was detained in April 2016 and later convicted of espionage, which he denies. Magdalena Mughrabi, Amnesty's deputy director for the Middle East and North Africa, said in a that ...
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