The French-Iranian researcher Fariba Adelka was released, who He was held in Evin prison in Tehranas announced on Friday by the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, confirming the news that was announced earlier via Twitter by the head of the Institute of Political Studies at Sciences Po in Paris.
Adelka, specialist in Shiite Islam and the post-revolutionary Iranhad been arrested in June 2019 and she was sentenced to five years in prison for “endangering national security”. It is currently unclear if she was released on parole.
“It is important Mrs. Fariba Adelka to fully regain her freedom, including her right to return to France if she so desires. France recalls the request for the immediate and unconditional release of all its nationals arbitrarily detained in Iran,” the French Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
Last month 30 political prisoners in Iran, including Adelka and Faezeh Hashemi (daughter of former president Hashemi Rafsanjani), signed an article calling for an end to the execution of protesters in the Islamic Republic.
Source: News Beast
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