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Human rights organisation Amnesty International has condemned Belgium’s shortcomings when it comes to providing asylum to refugees and humane conditions in the country’s prisons.

Illustration picture shows a protest for Ahmadreza Djalali, who received the death penalty for espionage in Iran without a fair trial, Tuesday 14 February 2017, at the Iranian embassy in Brussels. The 45 year old Djalali is an Iranian researcher working for the CRIMEDIM Disaster and Emergency Medicine program in which VUB ((Vrije Universiteit Brussel) participates, he was arrested in April 2016 while visiting family in Iran. (BELGA PHOTO DIRK WAEM)
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Ahmadreza Djalali, the visiting professor at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) currently in prison in Iran, has been moved from solitary confinement after more than 20 weeks, according to Amnes