Academic gets reprieve from Tehran prison

A French-iranian academic, Fariba Adelkhah, detained in Iran since June 2019, has been temporarily released from prison and is currently in Tehran with her family with an electronic bracelet, her lawyer said.

Ms Adelkhah was sentenced on May 16 to five years in prison for “gathering and conspiring against national security”. Emmanuel Macron, the French president, said in early June that Ms Adelkhah had been “arbitrarily arrested” and called her detainment “unacceptable”.