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Michael Fitzpatrick

EXPLAINED: Uncertainties remain for happy freed franco iranian academic | Rare Historical Photos

Yves Flueckiger, Rector of the University of Geneva, and French intellectual Roland Marchal (right) speaking in front of a picture of French-Iranian anthropologist Fariba Adelkhah. AP - SALVATORE DI NOLFI

French-Iranian academic Fariba Adelkhah is "happy" to have been released from prison in Iran but uncertainties remain about when she could return to France, her lawyer said at the weekend.

Adelkhah, who was first arrested in June 2019 and had been serving a five-year sentence, was released from prison on Friday night, the lawyer Hojjat Kermani told the French AFP news agency.

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