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MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION the case of Ahmadreza Jalali in Iran – B10-0299/2025

Source: European Parliament

with request for inclusion in the agenda for a debate on cases of breaches of human rights, democracy and the rule of law
pursuant to Rule 150 of the Rules of Procedure

Sebastião Bugalho, Michał Wawrykiewicz, Željana Zovko, David McAllister, Isabel Wiseler-Lima, Tomas Tobé, Miriam Lexmann, Andrey Kovatchev, Loucas Fourlas, Dariusz Joński, Loránt Vincze, Danuše Nerudová, Mirosława Nykiel, Antonio López-Istúriz White, Davor Ivo Stier, Luděk Niedermayer, Ingeborg Ter Laak, Liudas Mažylis, Inese Vaidere
on behalf of the PPE Group

NB: This motion for a resolution is available in the original language only.

Document selected :  

B10-0299/2025

Texts tabled :

B10-0299/2025

Texts adopted :

B10‑0299/2025

Motion for a European Parliament resolution on  case of Ahmadreza Djalali in Iran

(2025/2753(RSP))

The European Parliament,

–  having regard to its previous resolutions on Iran,

–  having regard to Rules 150(5) and and 136(4) of its Rules of Procedure,

  1. whereas Swedish-Iranian national Dr Ahmadreza Djalali, who specialises in emergency medicine and is a scholar at Belgium’s Vrije Universiteit Brussel and Italy’s Università del Piemonte Orientale, was arrested on 24 April 2016 by the Iranian security forces;

 

  1. whereas he was sentenced to death on spurious espionage charges in October 2017 following a grossly unfair trial based on a confession extracted under torture; whereas the sentence was upheld by Iran’s Supreme Court on 17 June 2018;

 

  1. whereas Dr Ahmadreza Djalali’s medical condition is steadily deteriorating, having suffered a severe heart attack in May 2025 and being denied medical care from outside the prison since 2016;

 

  1. whereas this case is part of a systematic pattern of unlawful detentions and hostage diplomacy by the Iranian regime;

 

  1. Calls on Iran to immediately release Dr Ahmadreza Djalali along with all political prisoners currently on death row and to halt all executions; deplores the inhumane circumstances of his detention and unfair trial;

 

  1. Condemns the outrageous allegations and charges pressed against Dr Ahmadreza Djalali, who was in Iran for legitimate professional purposes at the time of his unlawful arrest; urges the Iranian authorities to immediately drop all charges against Dr Ahmadreza Djalali;

 

  1. Deplores the Iranian regime’s refusal to provide Dr Ahmadreza Djalali with the specialized care he needs in light of his worryingly precarious medical condition;

 

  1. Urges the international community to exert additional pressure on the Iranian regime through bilateral channels;

 

  1. Strongly denounces the Iranian regime for instrumentalizing Dr Ahmadreza Djalali`s unlawful arrest within a broader pattern of intimidation and repression against academic freedom;

 

  1. Condemns the arbitrary detention of EU nationals in Iran and calls for their immediate release and repatriation;

 

  1. Reiterates its strong opposition to the death penalty and urges the Iranian Government to take all necessary steps towards its abolition;

 

  1. Condemns the Iranian regime’s use of politically motivated trials and the death sentence as a tool to suffocate any form of dissent; recalls that individual freedoms must be ensured unconditionally;

 

  1. Denounces Iran`s destabilising influence across the region and its systematic attempts to severely undermine the regional order through proxy militias, political and military interference and transnational repression;

 

  1. Stresses the importance of supporting the Iranian people’s democratic aspirations in the face of the regime’s brutal repression;

 

  1. Reiterates its call on the Council to designate the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps a terrorist organisation and continue identifying and sanctioning Iranian officials responsible for human rights violations;
  2. Instructs its President to forward this resolution to the Council, the Commission, the Vice-President of the Commission / High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, the Government and Parliament of Iran.