Al Jazeera News :
Iranian human rights activist and journalist Narges Mohammadi has been released from prison after her sentence was reduced, her husband and the judiciary said on Thursday.
“Narges was released from Zanjan prison at 3am [23:30 GMT on Wednesday]. Wishing freedom for all prisoners,” her husband Taghi Rahmani announced on Twitter.
The semiofficial ISNA news agency also quoted judiciary official Sadegh Niaraki as saying that Narges Mohammadi was freed late Wednesday after serving eight and a half years in prison.
Niaraki said Mohammadi was released based on a law that allows a prison sentence to be commutated if the related court agrees.
Mohammadi, 48, is a campaigner against the death penalty and was the spokeswoman for the Defenders of Human Rights Center in Iran – founded by Nobel Peace laureate Shirin Ebadi – when she was arrested in May 2015.
The mother-of-two was sentenced to a total of 10 years in prison for “forming and managing an illegal group”.
According to international press freedom organisation Reporters Without Borders (RSF), she was transferred in late December from Tehran’s Evin prison, where she had been held since 2015, to prison in Zanjan, northwest of the capital.
Iranian human rights activist and journalist Narges Mohammadi has been released from prison after her sentence was reduced, her husband and the judiciary said on Thursday.
“Narges was released from Zanjan prison at 3am [23:30 GMT on Wednesday]. Wishing freedom for all prisoners,” her husband Taghi Rahmani announced on Twitter.
The semiofficial ISNA news agency also quoted judiciary official Sadegh Niaraki as saying that Narges Mohammadi was freed late Wednesday after serving eight and a half years in prison.
Niaraki said Mohammadi was released based on a law that allows a prison sentence to be commutated if the related court agrees.
Mohammadi, 48, is a campaigner against the death penalty and was the spokeswoman for the Defenders of Human Rights Center in Iran – founded by Nobel Peace laureate Shirin Ebadi – when she was arrested in May 2015.
The mother-of-two was sentenced to a total of 10 years in prison for “forming and managing an illegal group”.
According to international press freedom organisation Reporters Without Borders (RSF), she was transferred in late December from Tehran’s Evin prison, where she had been held since 2015, to prison in Zanjan, northwest of the capital.
