Detained in Iran since June 2019, the Franco-Iranian anthropologist Fariba Adelkhah has been released from prison on a temporary basis and remains in Tehran with his family under the control of an electronic bracelet, announced on the evening of Saturday, October 3, his lawyer.
Fariba Adelkhah "was released with an electronic bracelet. She is now with her family in Tehran. We have not yet [been given] a date for her return to prison but we hope that this temporary release will become final," said Mr. Said. Dehghan.
A specialist in Shiism and post-revolutionary Iran at Sciences Po Paris, Fariba 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.
The latter was released in March.
But the researcher, born in Iran in 1959 and living in France since 1977, was sentenced on May 16 to five years in prison for "collusion with a view to attacking national security".
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In a "message to the Iranian authorities", French President Emmanuel Macron ruled in early June that the anthropologist 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".
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.
With AFP
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