The information comes from the Iranian news agency Mizan, the day after the Svea Court of Appeal announced its life sentence against the Iranian Hamid Noury.
Amnesty International’s Maja Åberg is not surprised that the trial against Floderus is now continuing.
– It will be like a marking because the Hamid Noury sentence came yesterday. Then they counter by saying that now they have also had another trial session for Johan Floderus.
The trial began earlier in December but was adjourned shortly thereafter.
Floderus has been imprisoned in Tehran since last April, when he was arrested after a vacation. According to information to TT, he was arrested as a consequence of the process against Noury in Sweden, which Iran condemned as “politically motivated”.
Iran: Unacceptable verdict
On Wednesday, Iran’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs described the Court of Appeal verdict against Hamid Noury as “completely unacceptable” and said it would use “all legal possibilities” to get him released.
Noury was sentenced to life imprisonment for his involvement in mass executions in an Iranian prison in 1988. It has been speculated that Iran wants to use the arrest of Johan Floderus in particular to bring about a prisoner exchange with Sweden for Hamid Noury.
Prisoner exchange
Noury’s lawyer, Thomas Bodström, said on Tuesday that he hopes for a prisoner exchange with Iran to bring imprisoned Swedes home. TT seeks a comment from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs regarding the information on the resumed trial.
The accusations against Johan Floderus have been condemned as groundless both by the Swedish government and by the EU’s foreign affairs chief Josep Borrell.