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Borrell named the man and confirmed in connection with a meeting in Spain that the Swede, who is in his 30s, works as an EU diplomat.
– I really want to emphasize that I personally and my entire team at all levels in close cooperation with the Swedish authorities and the man’s family have pressed for Iran to release him, says Borrell.
He emphasized that the matter is high on the EU’s agenda.
– At every diplomatic meeting, at every level, we have raised the issue. Tirelessly. We won’t stop until he’s free.
On Monday, the information spread that the Swedish EU diplomat had been arrested in Iran and had now been imprisoned for 500 days. The Swedish Foreign Ministry confirmed the information and later Foreign Minister Tobias Billström (M) also made a statement on the matter.
“The government has worked and is working very intensively on the case. The person in question is arbitrarily deprived of his liberty and must therefore be released immediately,” he wrote in a statement to SVT.
The Swedish diplomat was arrested in April 2022, suspected of espionage. The arrest took place shortly after a life sentence for the Iranian Hamid Noury in Sweden, and several experts believe that Iran wants to use the Swede as a way to put pressure on Sweden to have Noury handed over to Iran.
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