Iran's semi-official Student News Agency reported today, Wednesday, that a Swedish-Iranian academic convicted of spying for Israel is scheduled to be executed later this May.
The agency said that by May 21, Ahmed Reza Jalali, a Stockholm-based doctor and researcher in disaster medicine, is scheduled to be executed. He was arrested in 2016 during an academic visit to Iran.
He was sentenced to death in 2017, after being convicted of passing on information about two Iranian nuclear scientists - to the Israeli intelligence agency (Mossad) - that led to their assassination.
Jalali obtained Swedish citizenship while in detention in February 2018, months after Iran's Supreme Court confirmed the death sentence.
This news comes at a time when Hamid Nouri - a former Iranian prosecutor who was arrested by the Swedish authorities in 2019 - is facing a life sentence in Sweden for international war crimes and human rights violations.
Hamid Nouri, 61, is accused of committing crimes against humanity and war crimes in the 1980s for his involvement in the execution of more than 5,000 prisoners in Gohardasht Prison in Karaj in 1988, on the order of the then Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khomeini.
Nouri was arrested at Stockholm airport in November 2019 after Iranian dissidents in Sweden filed police complaints against him.
And the Iranian Students' News Agency had previously reported that the Iranian Foreign Ministry summoned the Swedish ambassador - last Monday - to convey Tehran's objection to the "baseless and fabricated accusations" made by the Swedish Public Prosecutor against Iran during the court's consideration of Nouri's case.