University of London Professor Released from Iranian Prison and Returns to Britain

Reuters reported on Tuesday, citing BBC News, of the release of Abbas Adalat, a British-Iranian citizen imprisoned in Iran, and his return to Britain.

Abbas Adalat, a professor of mathematics and computer science at Imperial College London, was arrested in mid-April of this year on security charges in Iran and transferred to Evin Prison.

According to Reuters, the news agency’s attempts to contact British Foreign Office officials for comment on this news were unsuccessful due to the Christmas holiday closure.

Currently, at least two other Iranian-British dual citizens, named Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and Kamal Foroughi, are imprisoned in Iran.

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe was detained at the airport in Farvardin 1395 while attempting to leave Iran. She was sentenced to five years in prison on charges of participation in “soft overthrow.”

Baquer and Siamak Namazi, an American-Iranian father and son, Nizar Zakka, a Lebanese citizen residing in the United States, Zhou Wang, an American of Chinese descent, and Robert Levinson, who disappeared on Kish Island in March 2007, are among those whom Washington calls “Iranian hostages.”

The United States says Iran imprisons certain individuals in order to gain leverage and by bringing false charges.

Source: Voice of America