Iranian detained in France since February 2019, Jalal Rohollahnejad, currently flies to Tehran, Iranian state television said Friday night, shortly after the Islamic Republic's Judicial Authority announced his release from Paris. as part of an inmate exchange.
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Jalal Rohollahnejad, 41, "was handed over to the Iranian embassy in Paris, and is currently on his way home by plane," says the website of Press TV, the English-language news channel. Iranian public broadcasting, citing judicial sources.