Ylva Johansson says EU is supporting Swedish government in attempt to get 33-year-old home after 512 days
The European Commission has said it is “very worried” about the plight of a Swedish EU official who has spent more than 500 days in jail in Iran.
The family also revealed that Floderus’s first consular meeting was permitted only five months after he was incarcerated and complained that “unacceptable” conditions including 24-hour lighting in his cell were “in violation of the UN-standard minimum rules for treatment of prisoners”. Johansson told the Guardian that Floderus had been on her team for two years but that he had just moved to another team because he wanted to work for the EU delegation in Afghanistan.“He was a very bright, very warm and an excellent person to work with. And of course, when you work close you also become friends,” said Johansson, speaking emotionally of her colleague during a press briefing on an unrelated matter.
“Of course, my feelings my worries are nothing compared to the situation of Johan or the worries that his closest family are living with every day.