Iran’s judiciary rules out swap for condemned Iranian-Swedish man

DUBAI, Could 10 (Reuters) – Ahmadreza Djalali, a Swedish-Iranian catastrophe drugs researcher arrested by Iran, will probably be executed and not using a chance of alternate with an Iranian nationwide tried in Sweden, Iran’s judiciary spokesperson stated on Tuesday.

“Djalali has been sentenced to demise on a number of costs and the decision is remaining. The sentence will probably be carried out,” spokesperson Zabihollah Khodaian stated, with out saying when it could happen.

Final week, Iran’s semi-official ISNA information company reported that the Djalali, sentenced to demise on costs of spying for Israel, could be executed by Could 21. He was arrested in 2016.

Relations between Sweden and Iran have been tense since Sweden detained and placed on trial former Iranian official Hamid Noury on costs of battle crimes for the mass execution and torture of political prisoners at an Iranian jail within the Eighties.

Noury’s trial, condemned by Iran, ended on Wednesday; the decision is due in July. He might face a life sentence in Sweden.

“These two points aren’t associated. Mr. Noury is harmless and Mr. Djalali was arrested two years previous to Mr. Noury’s case. There’s thus no chance of an alternate of those two people,” Khodaian stated, including that Noury’s case was “politically motivated.”

Indicating better tensions between Tehran and Stockholm, authorities detained a Swedish man in Iran on Friday, a couple of days after Sweden’s overseas ministry suggested towards pointless journey to the Center Jap nation.

Reporting by Dubai Newsroom; Enhancing by Jan Harvey and Bradley Perrett

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