A little over a year after his new incarceration, the Franco-Iranian anthropologist Fariba Adelkhah, detained for more than three years in Evin prison in Tehran, Iran, was released on Friday February 10, reported in a tweet Sciences Po, where she worked – information confirmed by the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, for whom it is essential that she “recovers all of its freedoms”.
“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”.
It is with happiness and relief that we announce the release of our dear colleague Fariba Adelkhah, detained… https://t.co/lggra2ycDi
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 attacks on national security. She had benefited from a “temporary release” in October 2020, before being imprisoned again in January 2022.
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