{"id":27020,"date":"2018-12-26T19:23:34","date_gmt":"2018-12-26T19:23:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=27020"},"modified":"2018-12-26T19:23:34","modified_gmt":"2018-12-26T19:23:34","slug":"british-iranian-professor-returns-to-uk-after-detention-in-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=27020","title":{"rendered":"British-Iranian professor returns to UK after detention in Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\"> (CNN)<\/cite>Abbas Edalat, a British-Iranian professor who was arrested and detained in Iran for eight months, has returned to the UK, according to British authorities.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">&#8220;We can confirm that a British-Iranian dual national who was detained in Tehran has returned to the UK,&#8221; a UK Foreign Office representative told CNN on Wednesday. &#8220;We continue to take action on all our consular cases in Iran in line with what we believe will produce the best outcomes in their cases.&#8221;\u00a0<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Iranian security forces arrested Edalat in April on security charges after he was accused\u00a0of being part of a British-affiliated, anti-Iran group that allegedly launched espionage operations and had contacts with leaders of mass anti-government protests in 2009, according to Iran&#8217;s semiofficial Fars news agency.\u00a0<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNN)Abbas Edalat, a British-Iranian professor who was arrested and detained in Iran for eight months, has returned to the UK, according to British authorities.&#8221;We can confirm that a British-Iranian dual national who was detained in Tehran has returned to the UK,&#8221; a UK Foreign Office representative told CNN on Wednesday. &#8220;We continue to take action&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":27021,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27020\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}