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Tehran has temporarily released French-Iranian researcher Fariba Adelkhah, who is serving a five-year prison sentence, while she remains in the Iranian capital equipped with an electronic bracelet, her lawyer said on Saturday.
“My client, Fariba Adelkhah, was released with an electronic bracelet. She is now with her family in Tehran,” lawyer Saeed Dehghan told AFP.
“We have not yet been informed of the date of his return to prison, but we hope that this temporary release will be permanent,” he added.
Adelkhah, a researcher at the Institute of Political Science in Paris and an anthropologist specializing in Shiite Islam, was arrested in early June 2019, as was her partner, researcher Roland Marshall, who came to Tehran to visit her.
On May 16, she was sentenced to five years in prison for “collusion with attempting against national security.”
The investigator pleaded not guilty to this charge during the trial that began on March 3 and held his last hearing on April 19.
At the end of June, the Iranian judiciary announced the ratification of the ruling on Adelkhah prison, provided that the period since his arrest is counted as part of the sentence.
The researcher has French and Iranian nationality, but the Islamic Republic does not recognize dual nationality and treats her exclusively as an Iranian citizen.
In early June, French President Emmanuel Macron demanded the “immediate release” of Adelkhah, saying she was “arbitrarily” arrested.
Tehran released Marshall in late March, in a move that followed France’s release of Iranian Jalal Rouhollah Ahmadinejad, who was facing possible extradition to the United States on charges of smuggling tech materials into Iran, in violation of sanctions. from the United States.
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