More convicted Iranians want to avoid prison after Kristersson's dictatorship deal

Published 16 June 2024 at 10.22

Foreign. Ulf Kristersson has released the torturer Hamid Noury ​​in a prisoner exchange with Iran to bring home the imprisoned Swedish citizens Johan Floderus and Saeed Azizi. Now more Iranians want to avoid prison and feel “discriminated” by the Swedish government.

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The Iranian KI researcher Ahmadreza Djalali was imprisoned in 2016 and sentenced to death in 2017 after going on holiday in the country he fled from.

Now he is in prison in Iran, convicted of spying for Israel, and is angry that the Swedish government has not negotiated his release than.

– I have no other words to describe it than discrimination, greets his wife Vida Mehrannia in SVT.

However, Djalali was Iranian when he was convicted of espionage and received Swedish citizenship only in 2018, when he was already sentenced to death. Something that Iran is not so eager to admit.

– To Ahmadreza Djalali and his family, I want to say that the government and the security services made great efforts for your husband and father to be part of today's operation. Unfortunately, Iran refuses to recognize him as a Swedish citizen, says Foreign Minister Tobias Billström in a comment to SVT.