IRAN: FURTHER INFORMATION: DOCTOR AND ACADEMIC SENTENCED TO DEATH: DR AHMADREZA DJALALI

Amnesty – Dr Ahmadreza Djalali, an Iranian-born Swedish resident and academic, has been sentenced to death for “corruption on earth” after a grossly unfair trial. His conviction was based on torture-tainted “confessions” that he was forced to make while in solitary confinement without access to his lawyer or family. He is a prisoner of conscience.