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PARIS, May 16 (UPI) -- Clotilde Reiss, a French researcher held in Iran since the 2009 presidential elections, was released Sunday and returned home to Paris, officials said.
Reiss, 24, was a lecturer and Persian history, culture and language scholar, when she was detained on spying charges in Isfahan, Iran, July 1 after joining in a demonstration against the disputed presidential vote. She spent six weeks in Tehran's infamous Evin Prison before being released on $350,000 bail to the French Embassy after a televised trial, Radio France Internationale said.
"Clotilde Reiss has boarded a French government plane at Dubai airport and is currently en route towards France," a statement from the office of French President Nicolas Sarkozy said early Sunday.
Reiss met with Sarkozy for 20-minutes after her arrival at an airbase outside Paris and made a statement thanking France for defending her from espionage charges, RFI said..
"They treated me like a sister," she said of her fellow detainees in Iran, including two men who were executed.
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