“The indisputable fact is that Dr. [Masoud] Ali-Mohammadi was martyred on January 12, 2010, at least three months before European agents approached me in the spring of 2010. This was even mentioned in the TV program based on my montaged statements, which prove that the accusations against me are contradictory lies. How could I be accused of giving information about someone who was martyred four months earlier?”

Professor Ahmadreza Djalali — Letter written in mid-January 2018

Professor Ahmadreza Djalali was arrested on April 26 2016. In the fall of 2017, he was sentenced to death. Here is the last letter Djalali wrote to all who have supported him over the last two years. Follow us on twitter: @Intel_Today

RELATED POST: Ahmadreza Djalali — Iran Ambassador To Belgium : “Death Sentence Decision Not Final” [UPDATE]

RELATED POST: IRAN — Professor Djalali Death Sentence Now Definitive

RELATED POST: IRAN — Professor Ahmadreza Djalali Death Sentence Suspended

RELATED POST: IRAN — Belgium University Professor Death Sentenced

RELATED POST: Iran — “Brussels Professor” Faces Death Penalty

RELATED POST: Meet Trump’s new Iran Man: CIA Michael D’Andrea

RELATED POST: Former Iranian President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani Takes Many Secrets to His Grave

RELATED POST: Iranian Nuclear Scientist Shahram Amiri Executed

On Thursday (April 26 2018), the chancellors of Flemish universities have decided unanimously to suspend all academic cooperation with Iranian institutions.

Professor Djalali taught disaster medicine at Karolinska institute in Stockholm. He was also a visiting professor in Brussels (VUB).

In October 2017,  Professor Djalali was sentenced to death. The sentence prompted many protests by the European Union and Western countries.

The Flemish chancellors are demanding “verifiable guarantees” from the Iranian authorities that Dr. Djalali’s fundamental rights have been respected, including the right to a fair trial and access to the required medical care.

“For as long as the Iranian authorities do not comply with this request, the Flemish universities will not conclude any new cooperation agreements with Iranian partners.”

“The Flemish chancellors are calling on the Iranian authorities to respect the rights of Dr. Djalali,” Herman Van Goethem, president of the Vlaamse Interuniversitaire Raad (VLIR – Flemish University Council) and chancellor of the University of Antwerp, said.

“Human rights are an important foreign-policy guideline for the Flemish Government,” added VLIR General Secretary Koen Verlackt.

“The Council thanks the Flemish Government and Flemish Parliament for their efforts and calls for all means to be used to reach a satisfactory solution for Dr. Djalali.”

Sweden has granted Djalali citizenship in order to provide him better legal assistance and in the hope of seeing the death sentence revoked by Iran. This is unlikely as Iran does not recognize dual-citizenship. Here is Professor Djalali’s last letter.

Open Letter from Professor Djalali

To the noble prize winners, professors, scientists, researchers, lecturers, students, my colleagues from UPO, VUB and KI, physicians and all academicians who have supported me.

Greeting, I, Ahmadreza Djalali, would like to thank you all for having supported me and my family during the past 2 years.

While I have been stuck in an intelligence-political game handled by the ministry of intelligence of Iran. At the beginning of this story, and also during the staged trial (developed in fall 2017), they showed many baseless and fabricated allegations against me to sacrifice an innocent academician for their our aims and gains.

But, they are going to loose these inhuman aims with the help international efforts and also my defensive documents and evidences, which clearly reject their claims.

There are no physical documents or evidences against me. I have never confessed for acting against the national security of Iran, neither being a spy for Israel or transferring the information of the assassinated nuclear scientists.

All claims about my confessions are lies, and that is the reason why they had to add a narrative voice on the movie broadcasted against me some months ago.

Within the past 2 years, I have spent the most difficult times in the prison of Evin. I have been under psychological and physical torture and harming.

I have lost about 15 kg over the last 6 months, and suffer from plenty of health problems, but have yet not received any medical services. Therefore, I am now in very high risk of sudden death.

Furthermore, the death sentence is like a continuous psychological torture for me.

The international support conducted by you all and academic entities have been very effective in intercepting the violent actions against me.

Besides, the support has helped me keep my hope of being released. However, the problem has not yet been solved.

Therefore I sincerely request you and all academicians around the world to continue your strong support for me. Please, ask Iranian officials to cancel the death sentence immediately, and free me after 2 years of unfair detention in the notorious prison of Evin.

I am looking forward to the day I return to my normal life and continue my scientific research and humanitarian activities again.

Thank you so much in advance.

Sincerely yours,

Ahmadreza Djalali.

Wife of Ahmadreza Djalali, sentenced to death in Iran, speaks to IOHR

Vida, wife of Swedish-Iranian academic Ahmadreza Djalali sentenced to death in Iran speaks to IOHR on the 2nd anniversary of his arrest about his forced confession, fabricated espionage charges: “Ahmad is in risk of sudden death.”

REFERENCES

Professor Ahmadreza Djalali still needs our help — VUB

Iran rejects review of academic’s death sentence — Arutz Sheva

Flemish universities suspend cooperation with Iranian institutions — Brussels Times

=

Two Years Ago — Professor Ahmadreza Djalali Arrested in Iran On Espionage Charges