UN Says Swedish Citizen Faces Iran Execution ‘Shortly’

The United Nations warned Saturday that an Iranian-Swedish citizen is facing imminent execution in Iran after a Swedish court upheld the conviction of a former Iranian prison official.

“Disturbing news that Dr. Ahmadreza Djalali could be shortly executed on charges of ‘enmity against God,’” the U.N. human rights office said on X.

Djalali was sentenced to death in 2017 on espionage charges that have been denounced as baseless by Stockholm and his supporters.

Before his arrest in Iran in April 2016, Djalali was a visiting professor in disaster medicine at Vrije Universiteit…