I dag, den 3 maj, är av FN proklamerat som “Världsdagen för pressfrihet” och det är en fråga som – tyvärr – blir alltmer aktuell i takt med att det fria ordet blivit mindre fritt runt om i världen. Också i vår närhet, i Europa, finns det tydliga indikationer på att pressfriheten kringskärs och att journalister utsätts […]
Swedish version below Three years ago – on April 26, 2016 – KI alumnus and researcher Ahmadreza Djalali was arrested in Iran, accused of espionage and “enmity with God”. About a year later, October 21, 2017, he was sentenced to death in a trial that will go into the history as a legal scandal. He […]
More than 2,5 years have now elapsed since Dr. Ahmadreza Djalali – a KI alumnus and Swedish citizen – was arrested in Iran, accused of spying. In October 2017, after a closed trial, he was sentenced to death. The case has raised concerns all over the world and numerous protests have been launched against the […]
EU-parlamentet antog den 31 maj en resolution som kraftfullt och tydligt tar avstånd från den brist på rättssäkerhet som råder i Iran. Det är ett utmärkt ställningstagande som ytterligare sätter press på regimen. En av många som på rättsosäkra grunder sitter fängslad i Iran är den tidigare KI-anknutne forskaren Ahmadreza Djalali. Anklagelserna mot honom är […]
Dr. Ahmadreza Djalali – a KI alumnus and Swedish citizen – has now spent two years in an Iranian prison, after a closed trial and with a death sentence hanging over him. In the absence of evidence to the contrary it appears that Dr. Djalali has been sentenced to death for peacefully exercising his right […]
Dr. Ahmadreza Djalali, who is held in Tehran since April 2016, and who is a prominent researcher in the field of disaster medicine, appealed last month against the death sentence received on 21 October 2017, after 19 months of imprisonment. The facts suggest that Dr. Djalali has been sentenced to death for peacefully exercising his […]
Together with the Rector at the Università del Piemonte Orientale, Italy and the Rector at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium, I as the Vice-Chancellor at Karolinska Institutet, have written a letter to Ayatollah Sadegh Larijani, Head of the Judiciary, Iran. We express our deepest concern over the detention of Dr. Ahmadreza Djalali who could now face the death […]