How to tell someone you love they’re being racist
8 January 2019 | 9:39 am
In the wake of terrorist attacks in Christchurch, New Zealand, we vow to unite against racism and...
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Dr Ahmadreza Djalali is a medical doctor, academic and researcher who specializes in the field of emergency disaster medicine. Ahmadreza Djalali, who has taught in European universities, was on a business trip to Iran when he was arrested near Tehran on 25 April 2016. He was held for three months in solitary confinement and has said that, during this time, he was forced to sign statements without a lawyer present. In December 2016, he was again put under intense pressure by interrogators to sign a statement “confessing” to being a spy for a “hostile government”. When he refused, the interrogators threatened to charge him with “enmity against God” (moharebeh), which carries the death penalty.
