Iran International:

Sweden’s prime minister has expressed regret that Swedish-Iranian death-row prisoner Ahmadreza Djalali has started a hunger strike after being left out of the Stockholm-Tehran prisoner swap.

Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson said that Iran was unwilling to negotiate for Djalali’s release.

He also advised Swedes against traveling to Iran, saying Swedish citizens who go to countries advised against by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs should not expect help if something happens.

Djalali, a Swedish-Iranian currently on death row in Iran, has started a hunger strike to protest being left out of the recent prisoner swap deal that secured the release of two Swedes jailed in Tehran.

The two Swedes were released in return for former Iranian jailor Hamid Noury who was serving a life sentence in Sweden over his role in Iran’s mass executions of the 1980s.

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