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Arkivbild. Från en tidigare fångutväxling med Iran 2016. Laurent Cipriani / Ap
Archive image. From a previous prisoner exchange with Iran in 2016. Laurent Cipriani / Ap
Iran's prisoner exchanges
The US buys out six prisoners in Iran for multi-billion sums
The United States has agreed with Iran on a prisoner exchange concerning five American citizens imprisoned by the country, writes Reuters.
In exchange, Iran receives over $6 billion in assets, money held in South Korean bank accounts and frozen by international authorities.
The US also promises to release an equivalent number of prisoners from its country.
Among the prisoners released are a former Unicef employee who was sentenced to ten years in prison for espionage in 2016 and a businessman who had been deprived of his liberty since 2018.
According to Reuters, it is not known how many American citizens are held in Iranian prisons as families and American authorities often wish to keep emerging cases discreet, hoping to resolve each case quietly.
The family's picture from the video call with Johan Floderus and picture of the prison where he is being held. Wikimedia/FreeJohanFloderus.com
Imprisoned Johan Floderus
The sign of life from Floderus from inside the infamous prison
Johan Floderus, the Swede imprisoned in Iran, has gone on hunger strike to get the right to contact his loved ones, his family writes in a press release. In exchange, Tehran's Evin prison has granted him the opportunity to call home once a month, but only if the conversation is in English and the topics discussed are acceptable, according to the monitors. The family believes that the conditions in the prison are against basic human rights.
Since Floderus was deprived of his liberty, he has only been allowed to make a video call with his relatives - it happened just over a month ago and the family is now releasing a picture from that occasion.
"He is only allowed out in the fresh air and the sun for three and a half hours a week," writes the family, who also say that he was kept in isolation for a total of over 300 days.
Today Floderus turns 33 and because of that the family is now appealing for international support to get him released.
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