The 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.
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.
SwedenSaeed Azizi is back home in Sweden again after being released from an Iranian prison. Now he tells Expressen about his time in captivity.
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.
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