Iran suggests prisoner exchange for Ahmadreza Djalali

Iran appears to be ready for a prisoner exchange in the case of Professor Ahmadreza Djalali. That writes VRTNWS. ‘We are ready to exchange prisoners. We can do that from tomorrow, we can do it today, ”said Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif.

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Despite the intensive campaign for the release of the Swedish-Iranian emergency doctor and VUB guest lecturer Ahmadreza Djalali’s, Iran continued to prepare for his execution.

For example, Djalali was placed in solitary confinement on Wednesday and would later be transferred to an infamous prison in Evin, where his execution would take place. Yesterday, Wednesday December 2, Amnesty International said that he would not have been transferred to Evin after all and that the execution with would have been delayed for a few days.

Although Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarig did not mention names, his message may refer to Ahmadreza Djalali. ‘We are ready to exchange prisoners. We can do that from tomorrow, we can do it today, ‘Zarig said on Thursday at a virtual diplomatic conference Med Dialogies 2020.

The increasing threat to Djalali’s execution could be intended to put pressure on the Belgian government and the judiciary, because in the meantime an Iranian diplomat is on trial in our country. Assadollah Asadi is accused of it to have planned a terrorist attack against Iranian opponents in Paris.

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