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The Franco-Iranian anthropologist, specialist in Shiism, was arrested in June, at the same time as the researcher Roland Marchal, also still detained.
The announcement came from Fariba Adelkhah's lawyer on Tuesday: Iranian judicial authorities have dropped the charge of espionage targeting the Franco-Iranian academic, detained in Iran for almost seven months.
However, the researcher is not free. She remains charged on two other counts, said Saïd Dehghan: " propaganda against the system " of the Islamic Republic, and " conspiracy against national security ".
According to his lawyer, the prosecution dropped its charges for " undermining public order ".
“ This is excellent news , rejoiced Béatrice Hibou, a colleague of the academic at the microphone of RFI. It was the most serious charge against Fariba. We can think that this very positive development is linked to the hunger strike, which began on December 24 . "
Transferred to Evin Women's Prison
In a press release sent to RFI, the researcher's support committee announces that she has also been transferred to the women's prison, still in Evin, " but with a slightly less terrible detention regime than that of solitary confinement . "
" She seems to have lost a lot of weight," the press release said , but [she] has regained her energy and her willpower that we know about her. She was able to converse with her sisters, as part of this new detention regime, and may even have access to meager telephone facilities. "
Fariba Adelkhah has nevertheless not ended his hunger strike, which began with Australian academic Kylie Moore-Gilbert .
Paris is still calling for the release of the Franco-Iranian woman, as well as of researcher Roland Marchal, also detained since last June.
(with AFP)