The Franco-Iranian anthropologist Fariba Adelkhah, detained in Iran since June 2019, has been released from prison on a temporary basis and remains in Tehran with his family under the control of an electronic bracelet, his lawyer announced on Saturday evening to AFP .
Fariba Adelkhah “was released with an electronic bracelet.
She is now with her family in Tehran.
We have not yet [given] a date for his return to prison but we hope that this temporary release will become final ”declared Me Saïd Dehghan.
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She was sentenced in May to five years in prison for "collusion with a view to endangering national security" and one year for "propaganda against the political system" of the Islamic Republic.
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 renowned specialist in Africa who came to visit her.
In a "message to the Iranian authorities", French President Emmanuel Macron ruled in early June that Fariba Adelkhah had been "arbitrarily arrested in Iran".
Deeming "unacceptable that she is still imprisoned", the French president added that "justice demands that our compatriot be immediately released".
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The Iranian authorities, who do not recognize dual nationality, have always qualified as "unacceptable interference" the multiple calls for the release of Fariba Adelkhah launched by Paris.