Ares Amiri, Dual-National Prisoner in Iran, Temporarily Released

According to reports from several human rights media outlets, including “Bidarzani,” with the acceptance of a retrial for Ares Amiri by the Supreme Court, the former student and employee of the British Council in Iran was temporarily released from Evin Prison.

According to published reports, this Iranian student at Kingston University in Britain, who was previously sentenced to 10 years in prison, was temporarily released from prison in early June of this year after posting bail.

Ares Amiri, an employee of the British Council who had traveled to Iran multiple times to visit family members, was arrested in March 2018, five days after entering Iran, by agents of the Ministry of Intelligence. After some time, in 2019, he was released from Evin Prison after posting a 500 million tomans bail.

Following his release, he was arrested again in September 2018 and was ultimately sentenced to 10 years in prison by the Revolutionary Court in April 2019.

Previously, following the outbreak of coronavirus in Iranian prisons, he was granted leave on April 11, 2020, and was returned to Evin Prison in mid-May of the same year due to the lack of extension of his furlough by the judiciary.

Currently, several American and non-American citizens, including Jamshid Sharmahd, Nazanin Zaghari, Siamak and Baquer Namazi, Kamran Ghaderi, Masoud Mousavi, Nahid Taghavi, and Anousheh Ansari—are imprisoned, under house arrest, or banned from leaving Iran.

The Islamic Republic of Iran has intensified the detention of foreign and dual-national citizens in recent years. Rob Malley, the U.S. Special Envoy for Iran Affairs, has warned against travel to Iran by anyone not currently present in the country and has urged people not to put themselves at risk by traveling to Iran.

Source: Voice of America