Adelka, an expert on Shia Islam and post-revolutionary Iran, was arrested in June 2019 and sentenced to 5 years in prison for “endangering national security”. It is currently unclear if she was released on parole.
The French-Iranian researcher Fariba Adelka, who was held in Evin prison in Tehran, has been released, as the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced yesterday, confirming the news that was announced earlier via Twitter by the head of the Institute of Political Studies at Sciences Po in Paris.
Adelka, an expert on Shia Islam and post-revolutionary Iran, was arrested in June 2019 and sentenced to 5 years in prison for “endangering national security”. It is currently unclear if she was released on parole.
“It is important that Mrs. Fariba Adelka regains her full freedom, including her right to return to France if she so wishes. France recalls the request for the immediate and unconditional release of all its nationals arbitrarily detained in Iran,” the French Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
Last month 30 political prisoners in Iran, including Adelka and Faezeh Hashemi (daughter of former president Hashemi Rafsanjani), signed an article calling for an end to the execution of protesters in the Islamic Republic.
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