Fariba Adelkhah, a French-Iranian scholar, has returned to a Tehran jail where she is serving a five-year term on allegations of undermining national security, after being permitted to leave for five days.
The French Committee to Support a Scholar at the Institute of Political Sciences in Paris and an anthropologist specialising in Shiism expressed regret in a statement that Faribas’ leave was not extended for five days and that he was not placed under house arrest.
She further reported that the researcher returned to Ewen Prison on Sunday evening.
The committee noted that present political dynamics in Iran do not imply that her detention conditions would improve in the coming months.
Last Tuesday, the committee stated that Adelkhah had been allowed five days of release from Tehran’s Evin prison, where he is being held in a case that has strained relations between Tehran and Paris.
Adelkhah was detained in early June 2019 at Tehran airport, and the Iranian judiciary sentenced her to five years in jail in May 2020 on allegations of conspiracy to damage national security, which her relatives absolutely dispute.
According to legal officials, the researcher was placed under house arrest and under the observation of an electronic bracelet in her home months after her confinement, but she was returned to jail in January 2022 on allegations of breaking the limits of house arrest.
It should be noted that Tehran is detaining a number of foreigners, the most of whom are dual nationals, including three French citizens, and says that their imprisonment is based on judicial proceedings and suspicions of different offences, most notably espionage or compromising national security. arabicrt\s.
Tehran.. Following a temporary parole, an Iranian-French scholar was returned to prison.
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