{"id":89391,"date":"2020-10-04T06:49:34","date_gmt":"2020-10-04T11:49:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/?p=89391"},"modified":"2020-10-04T06:54:06","modified_gmt":"2020-10-04T11:54:06","slug":"attorney-iran-temporarily-releases-french-iranian-academic-from-jail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/2020\/10\/04\/attorney-iran-temporarily-releases-french-iranian-academic-from-jail\/","title":{"rendered":"Attorney: Iran Temporarily Releases French-Iranian Academic From Jail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-89393 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Fariba-Adelkhah-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Fariba-Adelkhah-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Fariba-Adelkhah-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Fariba-Adelkhah.jpg 600w, https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Fariba-Adelkhah-24x16.jpg 24w, https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Fariba-Adelkhah-36x24.jpg 36w, https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Fariba-Adelkhah-48x32.jpg 48w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>VOA \u2014 DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES &#8211; Iran has temporarily released French-Iranian academic Fariba Adelkhah, who has been in jail after being convicted of security breaches, her lawyer said Saturday on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Fariba Adelkhah has come out [of prison] on leave with an electronic ankle bracelet,&#8221; Saeid Dehghan said in a tweet, without giving any other details of the release.<\/p>\n<p>There was no immediate official statement on the case from Iran&#8217;s judiciary.<\/p>\n<p>France had in June demanded that Adelkhah, 61, an anthropologist held since 2019, be released immediately, saying her detention was harming trust between the two countries.<\/p>\n<p>Iran\u2019s elite Revolutionary Guards have arrested dozens of dual nationals in recent years, mostly on espionage charges.<\/p>\n<p>In March, Iran granted temporary release to British-Iranian aid worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, along with thousands of other prisoners, following concerns about the spread of the coronavirus in prisons.<\/p>\n<p>In March, Iran and France exchanged prisoners: academic Roland Marchal for engineer Jalal Ruhollahnejad.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, however, there had been little sign that Adelkhah would be released. She was sentenced in May to six years in prison on security-related charges.<\/p>\n<p>Relations between France and Iran have improved over the last year but remain tense because of Iran\u2019s nuclear activities, its ballistic missile program and regional activities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VOA \u2014 DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES &#8211; Iran has temporarily released French-Iranian academic Fariba Adelkhah, who has been in jail after being convicted of security breaches, her lawyer said Saturday on Twitter. &#8220;Fariba Adelkhah has come out [of prison] on leave with an electronic ankle bracelet,&#8221; Saeid Dehghan said in a tweet, without giving any [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":89393,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latests"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.2","language":"en","enabled_languages":["fa","en"],"languages":{"fa":{"title":true,"content":false,"excerpt":false},"en":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89391"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89395,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89391\/revisions\/89395"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}