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STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - An Iranian court has begun the trial of a Swedish national employed by the European Union who was detained last year, Sweden's f...

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - An Iranian court has begun the trial of a Swedish national employed by the European Union who was detained last year, Sweden's foreign minister said on Saturday.

Iran begins trial of Swedish EU employee detained in 2022

Exclusive: Matts Floderus says his son Johan has been through ‘levels of hell in his nearly 600 days in detention

Imprisonment in Iran of Swedish citizen Johan Floderus, employee of EU diplomatic corps, is revealed after 500+ days. Family "deeply worried & in despair".

It’s been 600 days since Swedish citizen and European Union official Johan Floderus was detained by Iranian authorities. The 33-year-old Swedish citizen was arrested on April 17, 2022, at Tehran’s Imam Khomeini International Airport.

An Iranian court has ordered a five-year jail sentence against a French national tried on national security charges and held in prison for over a year, his family announced on Wednesday. Foreign Ministry spokesperson Anne-Claire Legendre denounced the sentence against Louis Arnaud, calling it "unacceptable." "We call for his immediate release, as well as that of all French citizens arbitrarily detained in Iran," the ministry said in a statement reported by AFP.

Tehran — Irans judiciary has indicted Swedish EU employee Johan Floderus on espionage charges, the Iranian website Misan reported on Wednesday, citing a judiciary spokesman.Floderus has been detained in Iran

Even though Iran is a party to the International Convention against the Taking of Hostages, the Islamist regime has long violated it, as it has other commitments, by taking foreign hostages as pawns to extract economic concessions and achieve

Geopolitical provocateurs can cause serious diplomatic headaches.