Aras Amiri, a dual-national prisoner in Iran, temporarily released

According to some human rights media outlets, including "Bidarzani," Aras Amiri, a student and former employee of the British Council, was temporarily released from Evin Prison after the Supreme Court accepted the retrial.

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

Aras Amiri, an employee of the British Council who had traveled to Iran many times to visit his family members, was arrested by intelligence officials in March 2017, five days after entering Iran. After some time, he was released from Evin Prison in 2018 after posting a bail of 500 million Tomans.

After his release, he was arrested again in September 2018 and was finally sentenced to 10 years in prison by the Revolutionary Court in May 2019.

He was previously sent on leave on April 11 of last year following the outbreak of the coronavirus in Iranian prisons, and was returned to Evin Prison in mid-May of the same year due to the judiciary's failure to extend his leave.

Currently, several American and non-American citizens – including Jamshid Sharmehed, Nazanin Zaghari, Siamak and Bagher Namazi, Kamran Ghaderi, Masoud Mosaheb, Nahid Taghavi, and Anousheh Ashouri – are imprisoned in Iran, either under house arrest, or banned from leaving.

The Islamic Republic of Iran has intensified its detention of foreign and dual nationals in recent years. Rob Malley, the US envoy to Iran, has warned anyone not to travel to Iran unless they are already there, and urged people not to put themselves at risk by traveling to Iran.

Source: Voice of America