TEHRAN, May 13 (NNN-IRNA) – The Iranian Embassy in Dublin, said that, an Irish national, imprisoned in Iran, has been pardoned and released on “consular and humanitarian” grounds.
The Iranian Embassy announced, in a post on its Twitter page on Thursday evening, the Irish national’s release was a result of “constructive diplomatic engagement, between Iran and Ireland,” identifying the Irish citizen as Bernard Phelan.
Phelan, a Paris-based travel consultant, was arrested in Oct, 2022, in Iran, and sentenced to over six years in prison for “sending security information” abroad, after the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, who died in a Tehran hospital on Sept 16, a few days after her collapse at a police station. The 64-year-old man was held in a prison in the north-eastern Iranian city of Mashhad.
Given that the Irish national had entered Iran with a French passport, his case was pursued by the French Embassy in Tehran.
In a phone call with his Iranian counterpart, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, on Thursday, Irish Foreign Minister, Michael Martin, thanked Iran for releasing Phelan.– NNN-IRNA
