Johan Floderus was arrested on April 17, 2022 at Tehran's airport as he was returning home from a trip with friends.
The Swede, who had been working in Brussels for the EU delegation to Afghanistan as a programme officer since September 2021, is being held at Tehran's notorious Evin prison. / Photo: AFP
"The family, friends, and supporters of Johan are calling for urgent international attention to secure his immediate release and safe return to Europe," the family wrote on Sunday on a website dedicated to his release, on his 33rd birthday. "His needs for adequate food rations, outside walks, medical checkups and much more are not respected ," his family wrote, adding that he had been denied"communicating" with Sweden's embassy in Tehran, except a few consular visits.
"He had to go on hunger strike to be allowed to make several of these calls, which have to be in English and monitored."
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