Franco-Iranian researcher Fariba Adelkhah, detained for three years in Iran, is released from prison

A little over a year after her new incarceration, the Franco-Iranian anthropologist Fariba Adelkhah, detained for more than three years in Iran, was released on Friday February 10, Sciences Po, where she worked, said in a tweet.

“It is with happiness and relief that we announce the release of our dear colleague Fariba Adelkhah”writes the institution. “Hostage of the local authorities, she was a scientific prisoner”she continues, before thanking “all those who allowed his release”.

Specialist in Shiism and post-revolutionary Iran at Sciences Po Paris, she was arrested, like her companion Roland Marchal, in June 2019, before being sentenced to five years in prison in May 2020 for breaches of national security. She had benefited from a “temporary release” in October 2020, before being imprisoned again in January 2022.

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