Djalalis lawyer: he is denied the correct treatment
Ahmadreza Djalali, despite the heart attack, which hit him in the notorious Evin prison in Tehran on Thursday, will not be cared for in hospital.
Instead, Iranian authorities have promised that he will be cared for in prison, but treatment with ECG examination, blood tests and other standard care has been absent, says his lawyer in Sweden Nima Rostami.
– There is no equipment at the prison. It has been promised that you will transport the equipment to the prison. They would have done that yesterday (Sunday), but when we had contact last night it had not happened.
He has been allowed to visit The prison health center during Friday morning, where the heart attack was found several hours after it occurred, and met a specialist on Saturday who gave him medicine.
After the Swedish-Iranian researcher Ahmadreza Djalali suffered a heart attack at the Evin prison in Iran, Sweden’s Foreign Minister Maria Malmer Stenergard wrote a post on X on Saturday.
« Tonight (…) I urgently spoken to Iran’s Foreign Minister. During the conversation, I made demands that Ahmadreza Djalali must immediately receive the specialist care he is in need of. »
Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi responds to the post – by lineing up Swedish political decisions that Iran considers is a « regrettable shift » for the relations between the countries.
Claims that Swedish police have been watching when Iran’s embassy in Stockholm was vandalized, as well as a decision to stop exporting medicines to Iran, is linked in the post with Iran’s captivation of Ahmadreza Djalali.
Djalali was arrested in Tehran in 2016 and sentenced to death for spying charges. He has always denied crime, saying that he was forced to recognizations during torture. He has since received Swedish citizenship, something that Araghchi describes as « astonishing ».
« Instead of continuing into a dead end, I urge my Swedish counterpart to reconsider the choices that have taken us where we are today, » Araghchi continues.
The Iranian Foreign Minister also claims that Djalali had access to care after the heart attack on Thursday, which is rejected by Djalalis Swedish representatives who say he was denied routine care efforts as ECG tests.
