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Azerbaijani scientist imprisoned in Iran to be executed on May 21
Region
- 04 May, 2022
- 11:10
A Swedish-Iranian national sentenced to death in Iran on charges of spying for Israeli intelligence is to be executed this month, Report informs, citing Iran's semi-official ISNA news agency.
Azerbaijani Turk Ahmadreza Djalali, a disaster medicine doctor and researcher, was arrested in 2016 on an academic visit to Iran and is to be executed by May 21.
He was sentenced to death 18 months later after being found guilty of passing information about two Iranian nuclear scientists to Israel's Mossad intelligence agency that led to their assassinations.
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