They used to take walks together, in the small rest area that exists in the Evin Prison in Tehran. Siamak Namazi was released in 2023. Swedish-Iranian Ahmadreza Djalali is still imprisoned – with risk to his life. He is being treated as a pawn, says Namazi to TT.
SwedenSweden should export medical equipment that Iran needs in exchange for Swedish-Iranian Ahmadreza Djalali, who is imprisoned in Tehran. This is suggested by 21 people who were previously imprisoned in an open letter to Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson (The Moderate Party).
Swedish politicsThe imprisoned Swedish-Iranian researcher Ahmadreza Djalali has had a heart attack, according to his wife Vida Mehrannia and lawyer Nima Rostami. Djalali, who was arrested in Iran in 2016 and is sentenced to death accused of espionage, is to be alive.
SwedenDespite the previous Social Democratic government having received clear warnings, no travel advisory for Iran had been issued when Johan Flodérus was imprisoned. This is stated by Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson (The Moderate Party) in an inquiry in the Constitutional Committee.
Swedish politicsFor nine years, the Swedish-Iranian researcher Ahmadreza Djalali has been imprisoned in Iran. His health has deteriorated severely over the years due to what he describes as torture-like conditions. "I am close to breaking point," he says in a new recording.
SwedenHas Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson (M) breached the Instrument of Government by providing "misleading" information about climate policy? This is one of the questions when Kristersson is questioned today in the Riksdag's Constitutional Committee (KU).
Swedish politicsIran's former deputy chief justice of the Supreme Court, Hossein Ali Nayeri, has passed away, according to Iranian state media. Nayeri was a key figure in the mass executions of political prisoners in Iran in 1988, for which a Swedish court sentenced Hamid Noury for involvement in.
WorldIran's ambassador has been "urgently" summoned to the Foreign Ministry since receiving information that the health of the death-sentenced Swedish-Iranian researcher Ahmadreza Djalali has deteriorated.
SwedenTwo high-ranking judges are reported to have been shot dead at Iran's highest court in Tehran. Both have been accused of a bloody past. One was the boss of Hamid Noury, who was convicted in Sweden, at the notorious prison massacres.
WorldWhen Swedes Johan Floderus and Saeed Azizi were released in exchange for Hamid Noury, who was convicted of war crimes, Ahmadreza Djalali was left behind in an Iranian prison. "I am still helplessly left behind with a constant risk of being executed," he says to SVT News in an audio recording.
SwedenAn Iranian man who was arrested in Italy, suspected of having delivered drone equipment to Iran's military, has been acquitted and flown home to Tehran. The news comes just days after an Italian journalist arrested in Iran was released.
WorldThousands of prisoners are being pardoned in Iran, reports the country's controlled media.
WorldThe number of cyber attacks and influence campaigns directed at Sweden has decreased after joining Nato. This assessment is made by several security experts who have spoken to Sweden Radio Ekot.
SwedenThe Swede Johan Floderus was arrested in Iran accused of espionage and threatened with the death penalty. After 790 days in captivity, of which over 250 in solitary confinement, he is back in Sweden. The isolation made me stronger, he says.
SwedenTwo Swedes were acquitted, but researcher Ahmadreza Djalali remained in prison in Iran. Today, his wife Vida Mehrannia met Foreign Minister Tobias Billström (M). They released a mass murderer and exchanged two people, but they didn't even call us, she says.
Swedish politics790 days Johan Floderus was imprisoned in Iran before he got to go home to Sweden again in the middle of June. Everyone asks if it doesn't feel unreal. But it feels very real, he says in an interview with TV4's Cold Facts.
SwedenThe Swedish-Iranian researcher Ahmadreza Djalali turns directly to Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson (M). Mr Prime Minister, you decided to leave me behind with a great risk of being executed. You left me helpless here, says Djalali in an audio recording.
Swedish politics"After two long years, I am finally a free man." That's what Johan Floderus says in a statement from the family, a couple of days after the highly publicised prisoner exchange. On arrival, he took the opportunity to propose to his boyfriend.
SwedenIn promises of parties, women, and a Finnish cruise, he managed to lure executioner Hamid Noury to Sweden and get him convicted. Now Hamid Noury is a free man – exchanged for two Swedish citizens. A tragedy that shows Iran they have free hands, believes Iraj Mesdaghi, who set the trap.
SwedenSweden has never before carried out an international prisoner exchange. This is the background to the exchange between the life-sentenced Hamid Noury and the captured Swedes Johan Floderus and Saeed Azizi.
SwedenFrom murderers and war criminals to wrongly convicted. The Iranian version of Saturday's prisoner exchange is a reversed mirror image of the Swedish one. The regime's line is that Noury's imprisonment was illegal, the sentencing illegal, and that the crime he is accused of did not take place, says Iran expert Rouzbeh Parsi.
SwedenJohan Floderus has been reunited with his family after the Iranian imprisonment. "We are with Johan and close friends and family. All is good", writes his sister Ingrid Floderus to Aftonbladet.
SwedenConversations over a long time without result. According to Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson, it was a reason for the government to decide to release Hamid Noury in exchange for Johan Floderus and Saeed Azizi. We assessed that the tracks were exhausted, he says to SR's "Good Morning World".
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