Freed prisoner files suit against Iran

WASHINGTON — A Florida man imprisoned in Iran before being released as part of a prisoner swap earlier this year has filed a lawsuit against the Iranian government.

Farzad Khosravi of Marco Island, Fla., filed the lawsuit Monday in federal court in the District of Columbia. Khosravi was identified by officials as Nosratollah Khosravi-Roodsari when he was one of four Americans released in January.

The lawsuit says Khosravi left Iran and was granted political asylum in the U.S. in 1982, but returned to Iran in 2012. The lawsuit says Iranian government officials initially confiscated his passports and later returned them, but when he tried to leave in 2015, he was imprisoned and tortured.