Aras Amiri, a dual national imprisoned in Iran, was released on leave
Aras Amiri, a student and former employee of the British Council imprisoned in Iran, who has been in prison for more than two years, has been released on leave.
According to images published on social media, Aras Amiri, who was sentenced to 10 years in prison, was temporarily released and on leave on Wednesday, April 11.
Ras 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, this Iranian student at Kingston University in the UK was arrested again in September 2018 and sentenced to 10 years in prison in May of this year.
Kiumars Marzban, a satirist imprisoned in Iran, was also released on Tuesday, April 9, after nearly two years in prison.
Previously, Nazanin Zaghari was among the dual citizens imprisoned in Iran who came on leave before Nowruz. Nazanin Zaghari was arrested by IRGC agents along with her young daughter at Tehran's Imam Khomeini Airport about three years ago while returning to London and was sentenced to 5 years in prison by the court.
However, other dual nationals are still in Iranian prisons, including Anousheh Ashouri, a British citizen of Iranian descent who is in Evin Prison and who, on her 66th birthday, sent a voice message from Evin Prison calling for her release.
In this audio message published on Wednesday, April 10, on the Guardian newspaper website, Mr. Ashouri said: "Today, I spend my 66th birthday as a hostage, in a hell called Evin Prison, away from my family and loved ones."
The United States Department of State has repeatedly condemned the Islamic Republic's regime's arbitrary and unjustified detention of American and other citizens, including dual-national Iranians, and called for their immediate and unconditional release.
Source: Voice of America
