French-Iranian academic held in Iran since 2019 back in France: supporters

French-Iranian academic Fariba Adelkhah has returned to France, her university said Wednesday, after having been held for nearly five years in Iran in a case that added to tensions between Paris and Tehran. Adelkhah, who was arrested in June 2019 and convicted on national security charges, had been released from prison in February but had been unable to leave Iran.She landed back in Paris on Tuesday, according to Sciences Po University, where she worked as a researcher, and which had set up a su