The European Union's home affairs commissioner is calling for the release of a Swedish employee of the EU’s diplomatic corps who spent a second birthday in an infamous Iranian prison.
have started a public campaign to win Floderus’ freedom. According to his family, he has been held in brutal conditions at Iran’s Evin prison. Since its construction in 1971, the prison has been the site of a series of abuses that continued after Iran’s shah was overthrown into the Islamic Republic.
The family said he was arrested in April 2022 at the Tehran airport while returning from a leisure trip with friends. His relative said Floderus was denied any contact with them during the first 10 months of his detention and has been granted only “a very few number of consular visits.”
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