The Paris political sciences institute Sciences Po says French-Iranian academic Fariba Adelkhah, who was detained for years in Iran, has returned to France. Adelkhah had been arrested in 2019 on security charges. Science Po says she arrived in France on Tuesday. She was freed from prison in February this year but had not been allowed to leave Iran.
FILE - Yves Flueckiger, left, Rector of the university of Geneva, next to Roland Marchal, right, researcher at CERI, in front of the picture of French-Iranian anthropologist Fariba Adelkhah, placed under house arrest in Iran, as he delivers his speech, during the ceremony Dies Academicus of the University of Geneva, in Geneva, on Oct. 9, 2020. Paris’ political sciences institute Sciences Po announced on Wednesday Oct.
Adelkhah, an anthropologist who was arrested in 2019 on security charges, arrived in France on Tuesday, Science Po said. She was freed from prison in February but had not been allowed to leave Iran. She had earlier been released from prison in October 2020 to serve part of her five-year sentence under house arrest but was re-imprisoned in January 2022, the institute said.
French President Emmanuel Macron had a phone call with Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi on Sunday during which he called for the release of Adelkhah and threeAdelkhah and French academic Roland Marchal, both researchers at Sciences Po, were arrested in Iran on June 5, 2019. Marchal was freed in 2020 in an apparent prisoner swap. His release came hours after French authorities freed Jalal Ruhollahnejad, an Iranian engineer who faced U.S. charges of attempting to illegally export U.S.
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