SARAJEVO, (Patria) - Iran has temporarily released Nasrin Sotoudeh, a prominent lawyer who was imprisoned two years ago for alleged espionage and propaganda, the judicial news agency reported.
The release followed a warning last month from human rights groups that Sotoudeh's health had seriously deteriorated after a six-month hunger strike, demanding the release of political prisoners and rights activists.
"Nasrin Sotoudeh ... continued to work in agreement with the deputy supervisor of the women's prison," the Mizan judicial news agency stated, without providing further details, The Guardian reports.
Iran has granted temporary release to thousands of prisoners due to concerns about the spread of coronavirus in prisons in the Middle East's hardest-hit country.
Sotoudeh (57), who represented opposition activists, including women prosecuted for removing their headscarves, was arrested in 2018 and accused of espionage, spreading propaganda, and insulting Iran's supreme leader.
The human rights lawyer, who denied the charges, was sentenced to 38 years in prison and 148 lashes.
Eight years earlier, she was imprisoned on similar propaganda charges and for conspiracy to harm state security - charges she also denied - and was released after serving half of her sentence.
The European Parliament awarded her the Sakharov Prize for Human Rights in 2012.
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