ISTOCK, FREDEX8Update (December 13): Iran's Supreme Court has upheld Djalali's death sentence, Nature reports. According to the publication, his "next step to avoid execution would be for Djalali to ask the head of the judiciary for a review of the sentence."
Seventy-five past Nobel winners have signed a letter to the Ambassador to the Mission of Iran to the United Nations calling for the release of Ahmadreza Djalali, Nature reports. Djalali carried out disaster medicine research in Sweden and Italy before he was arrested in Tehran in April 2016 and sentenced to death for espionage. Prosecutors linked the Iranian-born scientist to the deaths of several nuclear scientists in the country, according to Nature.
“[A] document based on a handwritten text by Dr. Djalali has now raised the suspicion that it was his refusal to work for the Iranian Intelligence Services, which led to this unfair, flawed trial,” the letter states. Citing several similar petitions, it urges Iranian authorities “to let Ahmadreza come back home to his ...
