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Wednesday, 12 January 2022

A Kingston University postgraduate student who was accused of spying by Iran has been released from detention there.

Aras Amiri had been acquitted of all charges by Iran's Supreme Court following an appeal.

Ms Amiri, who had been working in the British Council's London office, was arrested in 2018 while visiting her grandmother.

She was sentenced to 10 years in jail in 2019 but has now returned to the UK.