Prisoner exchange | The Swedish diplomat imprisoned in Iran returns to Sweden – Iran accused the man of “corruption on earth”

in Iran a Swedish diplomat sentenced to life Johan Floderus returns to Sweden in a prisoner exchange.

Floderus is on his way home with another Swedish prisoner, the Prime Minister of Sweden Ulf Kristersson write message service in X.

“I am pleased to announce that Johan Floderus and Saeed Aziz are now on a plane on their way to their home country of Sweden and will soon get to their families,” says the Prime Minister.

EU diplomat Floderus was imprisoned in Iran in 2022. Iran accused Floderus of actions against Iran’s security, intelligence activities with Israel and “corruption on earth”. Corruption on earth is one of the most serious crimes in the country and can lead to the death penalty.

Azizi was arrested in November last year and later sentenced to five years in prison.

in Sweden sentenced to life imprisonment Hamid Noury sent in exchange to the Iranian authorities, Iran says.

Arrested at Arlanda Airport in Stockholm in 2019, Noury ​​was sentenced to life imprisonment in Sweden for his involvement in mass executions in an Iranian prison in the late 1980s.

“Hamid Noury, who has been illegally imprisoned in Sweden since 2019, is free and will return to the country in a few hours,” Head of the Iranian Human Rights Council Kazem Gharibabadi wrote In a statement published in X.

Noury’s case is at least related to the events of the end of the war between Iraq and Iran. At that time, at least 5,000 prisoners were killed across Iran in retaliation for attacks by the Iranian People’s Mujahideen organization.

At the time, Noury ​​had worked as an assistant prosecutor in a prison near Tehran.