Detained for sixteen months, the Franco-Iranian anthropologist was authorized to leave prison to go to her family in Tehran.
Fariba Adelkhah has been released on a temporary basis under the control of an electronic bracelet, said her lawyer Saïd Dehghan, who announced the news on Saturday.
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The Iranian authorities did not give
"a date for his return to prison, but we hope that this temporary release will become final"
, added the lawyer, without giving further details.
"His morale is good,"
says
a member of his support committee
to
Le Figaro
.
A specialist in Shiism and post-revolutionary Iran at Sciences Po Paris, Ms. Adelkhah was arrested in early June 2019 in Tehran, as was her companion, Roland Marchal, a specialist in Africa, who came to visit her.
The latter was released in March as part of an exchange with an Iranian engineer, released from French prisons.
But the researcher, born in Iran in 1959 and living in France since 1977, was sentenced
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