IRAN: FORCIBLY DISAPPEARED SWEDISH-IRANIAN AT RISK OF EXECUTION

Dear Mr Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejei,

Swedish-Iranian academic and medical doctor, Ahmadreza Djalali, arbitrarily detained in Iran since April 2016 and sentenced to death following a grossly unfair trial, is being subjected to enforced disappearance, a crime under international law. Since June 24, 2025, Iranian authorities have denied his family and lawyers information about this fate and whereabouts despite their repeated efforts to obtain information. This raises fear that he is at grave risk of secret execution amid an ongoing execution crisis. Ahmadreza Djalali last communicated with his family on June 23, 2025, when he briefly called after the Israeli military’s deliberate air strikes on Tehran’s Evin prison that day. After the air strikes, the authorities transferred about 180 men prisoners from Evin prison to the Greater Tehran Penitentiary. According to an informed source, he was amongst those transferred but was suddenly taken to an unknown location on June 24, 2025.

Throughout 2025, Ahmadreza Djalali’s health deteriorated further, including following a heart attack in early May 2025, while authorities denied him access to adequate healthcare. In October 2017, a Revolutionary Court sentenced Ahmadreza Djalali to death for “corruption on earth” (efsad-e fel-arz) after a grossly unfair trial on unsubstantiated allegations of collaborating and communicating with Israel, which he has repeatedly denied.

I call on you to immediately disclose the fate and whereabouts of Ahmadreza Djalali, halt any plans to execute him, quash his conviction and death sentence, and immediately release him as his detention is rendered arbitrary due to the severe non-observance of his fair trial rights. Pending release, he must be provided prompt and ongoing access to his family, lawyers, adequate medical care and protected from further torture and other ill-treatment.

Yours sincerely,

[YOUR NAME]