- Japanese Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi announced that one Japanese national, detained in Iran since last year, has been released and is returning home.
- The individual was released on Wednesday and was scheduled to arrive back in Japan on Sunday after taking a flight from Azerbaijan.
- A second Japanese national, who was arrested earlier this year, remains in Iranian custody, with Motegi actively working for their early release.
- Motegi confirmed he had made repeated demands to Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi regarding the detainees' release.
- The Committee to Protect Journalists identified the second detainee as an NHK journalist, arrested on 20 January by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and later transferred to Evin Prison.
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