Iran has granted a reprieve to an Iranian-Swedish academic who was facing execution for allegedly spying for Israel, The Guardian reports.
It is not immediately clear if the reprieve is temporary, the report says.
Ahmadreza Djalali was expected to be executed in Iran as soon as Wednesday, rights groups and his wife have said.
Djalali, formerly based in Stockholm where he worked at the Karolinska Institute, a medical university, was arrested during a visit to Iran in April 2016 and sentenced to death in October 2017.
Ahmadreza Djalali, left, and his family. (Screen capture via YouTube/Amnesty International)
He was found guilty of passing information about two Iranian nuclear scientists to Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency that had led to their assassinations. Djalali has claimed he is being punished for refusing to spy for Iran while working in Europe.
— with agencies
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