French embassy worker in Iran freed

12 Aug 2009, 9:06 am   -   Source: AAP
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French embassy staffer Nazak Afshar, on trial on charges related to post-election protests in Iran, has left a Tehran prison, the French presidency said.

French embassy staffer Nazak Afshar, on trial on charges related to post-election protests in Iran, has left the Tehran prison where she was being held, the French presidency said on Tuesday.

President Nicolas Sarkozy spoke to the French-Iranian dual national after she was released from the prison where French lecturer Clothilde Reiss, also on trial, is still being held, it said.

Reiss and Afshar were among defendants tried on charges related to huge protests across Iran after President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was declared re-elected in June.

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