Ahmadreza Djalali Languishing in Iranian Prison—124 Nobel Laureates Call for His Release
It has been over 30 months since Ahmadreza Djalali, an Iranian-Swedish citizen and a scholar of disaster medicine was arrested in Iran. On October 19, 2018, Djalali underwent an operation in Tehran’s Taleghani Hospital on October 17. This operation took place after Djalali suffered a month of severe pain and the denial of medical treatment. The 45-year-old professor, who taught at the European Master in Disaster Medicine (EMDM) in Italy—a joint master’s program of the Univers