Detention of Johan Floderus

<a href="/facts/Johan_Floderus/cepvp95K">Johan Floderus</a> [sv] (born 10 September 1990) is a Swedish diplomat and <a href="/facts/European_Union/6GYcR8qM">European Union</a> official. He first started working for the <a href="/facts/European_Commission/Cc5JgbEI">European Commission</a> in 2019, serving as an aide to the then-incumbent <a href="/facts/European_Commissioner_for_Home_Affairs/zk002SLz">European Commissioner for Home Affairs</a>, <a href="/facts/Ylva_Johansson/QVVK7cTq">Ylva Johansson</a>, before joining the <a href="/facts/European_External_Action_Service/JNI3UXAP">European External Action Service</a> two years later.
On 4 September 2023, a <a href="/facts/New_York_Times/T9marWVX">New York Times</a> report revealed that Floderus had been arrested by <a href="/facts/Iranian_authorities/3a2xqGM0">Iranian authorities</a> at the <a href="/facts/Imam_Khomeini_International_Airport/XIh4wLLH">international airport in Tehran</a> in April 2022, while visiting the country on holiday, and had reportedly been detained at the <a href="/facts/Evin_Prison/kXzJAw8d">Evin Prison</a> ever since. <a href="/facts/EU_foreign_policy_chief/Lqb5Joc1">EU foreign policy chief</a> <a href="/facts/Josep_Borrell/rKVVzIsh">Josep Borrell</a> confirmed the news the following day.
On 10 September, Floderus's family officially started a public campaign, named #FreeJohanFloderus, in support of his liberation. On 10 December, he was officially charged with "extensive measures against the security of <a href="/facts/Iran/24yukge8">the country</a>, extensive intelligence cooperation with the <a href="/facts/Zionist_regime/gaCP3GLe">Zionist regime</a> and <a href="/facts/Mofsed-e-filarz/YnGIfAp4">corruption on Earth</a>" by Iranian authorities.
On 15 June 2024, <a href="/facts/Swedish_Prime_Minister/cELLLCUv">Swedish Prime Minister</a> <a href="/facts/Ulf_Kristersson/8cBCDb08">Ulf Kristersson</a> publicly announced that Floderus had been released from Iranian authorities, together with fellow Swedish prisoner Saeed Azizi, as part of a <a href="/facts/Prisoner_exchange/PdHdGFV9">prisoner exchange deal</a> that saw convicted <a href="/facts/War_criminal/36qQAugC">war criminal</a> <a href="/facts/Trial_of_Hamid_Nouri/dBEWCLw4">Hamid Nouri</a> return to Iran.

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