She then demanded that Iran immediately release the doomed Swedish-Iranian researcher Ahmadreza Djalali.
– The death penalty is not a deterrent to serious crimes. It is an unacceptable denial of the most basic human right: the right to life, Metsola said.
The Iranian news agency Isna reported earlier in May that Djalali would be executed by May 21.
But on Monday, reports came from Tehran that Iran was considering postponing the planned execution.
49-year-old Ahmadreza Djalali, who defended his dissertation in emergency medicine at Karolinska Institutet in 2012, was arrested by the Iranian intelligence service in April 2016, when he was in the country at the invitation of an Iranian university. He was sentenced to death in 2017, accused of spying for Israel.
In July last year, the European Parliament voted by a wide margin in favor of a resolution calling for the release of Ahmadreza Djalali.
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