Johan Floderus

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Johan Floderus (born 10 September 1990) is a Swedish diplomat and European Union official. He first started working for the European Commission in 2019, serving as an aide to the then-incumbent European Commissioner for Home Affairs, Ylva Johansson, before joining the European External Action Service two years later. On 4 September 2023, a New York Times report revealed that Floderus had been arrested by Iranian authorities at the international airport in Tehran in April 2022, while visiting the country on holiday, and had reportedly been detained at the Evin Prison. EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell confirmed the news the following day. On 10 September, Floderus's family officially started a public campaign, named #FreeJohanFloderus, in support of his liberation. On 10 December, he was officially charged with "extensive measures against the security of the country, extensive intelligence cooperation with the Zionist regime and corruption on Earth" by Iranian authorities. On 15 June 2024, Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson publicly announced that Floderus had been released from Iranian authorities, together with his fellow prisoner, the Iranian-Swedish dual national Saeed Azizi, as part of a prisoner exchange deal that saw Iranian prosecutor Hamid Nouri who had been tried and convicted in Sweden for his role in the 1988 executions of Iranian political prisoners, return to Iran.