Iranian-Swedish citizen Saeed Azizi also exchanged for Hamid Noury, who was serving life in Sweden for role in death of political prisoners Johan Floderus, the Swedish EU diplomat held in captivity ...

An Iranian convicted in Sweden of war crimes has been freed as part of a prisoner swap between the two countries. Hamid Noury, who was serving a life sentence, has returned to Tehran while Johan ...

The wife of an Iranian-Swedish academic condemned to death in Iran says he has ended a hunger strike eight days after launching the protest at his being left out of a prisoner swap between Tehran and ...

Iranian-Swedish academic Ahmadreza Djalali has gone on a hunger strike to protest against being left out of a prisoner exchange deal between Tehran and Stockholm, his wife Vida Mehrannia told RFE/RL’s ...

Iranian-Swedish academic Ahmad Reza Jalali, who has been on death row in Iran for eight years, criticised Sweden's prime minister after being excluded from a prisoner swap, in an audio recording ...

Johan Floderus gets down on one knee to propose to his partner shortly after returning to Sweden. Photo: AFP Photo/Tom Samuelsson/Regeringskansliet Johan Floderus, a Swedish diplomat freed in a rare ...

Exchange of Hamid Nouri for Johan Floderus seen as ‘emboldening Iran’ to use hostages as political bargaining chips Melanie has been based in the Middle East since 2008 and covers news and feature ...