German, Swedish universities demand release of scholar
03 April 2021
Human rights experts at the United Nations are on high alert and have voiced their concerns at the worsening, life-threatening situation of the Swedish-Iranian scientist Dr Ahmadreza Djalali, who has been arbitrarily arrested and detained in Iran.
Against this backdrop, the chair of the board of the Association of Swedish Higher Education Institutions (SUHF), Professor Astrid Soderbergh Widding, and the president of the German Rectors’ Conference (HRK), Professor Dr Peter-Andre Alt, in a joint open letter have urgently called for Iran’s leaders to lift the death penalty and release the scientist from prison immediately.