The Chamber unanimously approved a resolution on Thursday requesting a pardon for Iranian doctor Ahmadreza Djalali, sentenced to death. The Chamber is pushing for the scientist’s release.
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Last week it became known that the Iranian-Swedish VUB guest lecturer Djalali is threatened to be executed in the coming days. Both the Swedish and Belgian authorities and the EU have urged Iran to refrain from doing so.
The call is supported from the House. In an urgently adopted text, the government asks “to plead with the Iranian authorities that the professor should not be executed under any circumstances” and to ask for his pardon. The motion also calls for immediate release unless “a new, fair trial is held in public and with all legal guarantees.”
“Postponed”
On Wednesday, Belgian Foreign Minister Sophie Wilmès had a telephone interview with her Iranian counterpart Mohammad Javad Zarif. According to sources close to Foreign Affairs, the interview mainly focused on the fate of the Iranian-Swedish doctor.
The execution of the academic was postponed by decision of the local authorities “a few days”, his wife announced on Thursday.
According to information from the human rights organization Amnesty International, Djalali would have been transferred on Tuesday afternoon to the Karadj prison near Tehran. But according to his wife, Vida Mehran Nia, the transfer has yet to take place.
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