Alarabiya – US resident released from Iranian prison, returns home: Rights group
An Iranian citizen who holds permanent residency in the United States has been released from prison in Iran and has returned to the US, a rights group said Tuesday.
“Shahab Dalili, an Iranian citizen and US permanent resident who had been imprisoned in Evin Prison, was released after serving 10 years in prison. Following his release, he returned to the United States,” the Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) said in a statement.
It said the man, who was sentenced for allegedly “cooperating with a hostile government,” travelled after his release from Iran to the Armenian capital Yerevan before returning to Washington “where he is now safe and reunited with his family.” It did not specify the date of his return.
Dalili was jailed in 2016 when he visited Iran for his father’s funeral.
He strongly denied the charges he was detained on.
Both he and his son went on hunger strike in 2023 after he was not included in a deal to free US citizens.
That deal saw the US authorize the transfer of six billion dollars in Iranian funds frozen in South Korea and the release of five Iranians to facilitate the release of five Americans jailed by Iran in 2023.
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