Iran Press/Iran News: Masoud Soleimani, a well-known Iranian scientist in US prison is now in critical condition, according to IRIB News Agency.
Soleimani, who has been held in US prison for 11 months, had two nerve attacks in the chest area last week and has so far been given no treatment. Iranian scientist is currently suffering from severe pain.
Masoud Soleimani, a professor at Tehran's Tarbiat Modares University and a prominent stem cell scientist, has been in US prison for about 11 months without any acceptable reason.
Scientific and academic institutions and human rights groups have condemned the US move, demanding the release of this Iranian scientist.
Masoumeh Javani, the mother of Massoud Soleimani, who had been in coma for seven months after hearing that her son had been arrested by US security forces seven months ago, died at the age of 63 not long ago.
Concern over her son's condition was announced as one of the reasons for her death.
Top Iranian stem cell scientist Dr. Masoud Soleimani has been behind bars in the United States without trial for the past 11 months.
Back in October last year, Soleimani, a professor and biomedical researcher at the Tarbiat Modares University (TMU) in Tehran, was arrested by the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) upon his arrival in the US.
According to his Atlanta attorney, Leonard Franco, he has since been held behind bars in jail in Atlanta without bond.
Soleimani had been invited by the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota for leading a research program there, but he was secretly indicted by the FBI, which also canceled his research visa.
Neither the FBI nor the US prosecutors have so far officially commented on his detention.
BJay Pak, the US attorney in Atlanta, secured Soleimani’s indictment on June 12, 2018, just a month after President Donald Trump withdrew the US from the Iran nuclear deal, and Soleimani had been fully unaware of such an indictment when he flew to the US.
The seizure occurred at a time when Washington was still a signatory to the 2015 nuclear deal, officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), and anti-Iran sanctions had not been re-imposed yet.
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