Tehran, April 18: Iran has released about 100 Egyptian nationals who had been detained or under house arrest in the Islamic Republic since eight years ago, a report says.
The detainees were freed with the mediation of Lebanon’s Hezbollah Secretary General Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah, Egyptian lawyer Montasser el-Zayat told Egyptian newspaper Ruz al-Yusuf on Sunday.
He noted that the released Egyptian activists, who had escaped from Afghanistan to Iran with their families eight years ago, had been under arrest since then.
El-Zayat went on to say that he had held several meetings with members of Hezbollah political office during his two visits to Lebanon last month, and asked Nasrallah to mediate the release process.
The Egyptian lawyer added that all of the Egyptian prisoners, except for three people, have returned to Egypt.
After the Egypt revolution, which ended over 30 years of President Hosni Mubarak’s rule, the leaders of some of the opposition groups were reportedly released from prisons in Egypt.
About 600 members of Egyptian opposition groups, who were forced to escape from their country under Mubarak’s rule, have reportedly returned to Egypt after the revolution forced him to step down.
——-Agencies