The Guardian: Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, the British-Iranian dual national, has been temporarily released from Evin prison on Tehran, but will be required to wear an ankle brace and not move more than 300 metres from her parents’ home.

Her two-week release came after weeks of family and diplomatic pressure on the Iranian judicial authorities to accept she was in vulnerable position in jail as the threat of coronavirus spread through Iran’s prison system.

Zaghari-Ratcliffe was sentenced to five years in jail in 2016, and had been granted furlough once before.

The Iranian judiciary said it had so far released 85,000 prisoners, half of whom were political prisoners.

The UK foreign secretary, Dominic Raab, spoke to the Iranian foreign minister, Javid Zarif, on Monday, but in the Commons on Tuesday gave no indication Zaghari-Ratcliffe was about to be released.

In a statement, Raab said he was relieved by her release, adding: “We urge the regime to ensure she receives any necessary medical care. While this is a welcome step, we urge the government now to release all UK dual nationals arbitrarily detained in Iran, and enable them to return to their families in the UK.”

In a statement, the Free Nazanin Campaign said it was “pleased to confirm – as has long been promised – that Nazanin was this afternoon released temporarily on furlough for two weeks until 4 April 2020”.

“Unfortunately, Nazanin will be exceptionally required to wear an ankle tag during the furlough, which her parents have now hired from the authorities. Nazanin’s movements will be restricted to 300 metres from her parents’ home.

“This makes her release more comparable to house arrest than the standard furlough arrangement that has been granted to other prisoners in Evin this week. She is currently in her parents’ home in west Tehran.”

Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s release is temporary furlough. It is scheduled to end 15 days after Nowruz, the Iranian new year. This is on 4 April, four years and a day after her original imprisonment.

She was not required to present any further bail, since the title deeds for her parents’ home were already with the judiciary as bail from her previous furlough in August 2018.

Nazanin is the only prisoner granted furlough in the last few weeks (more than one third of the women’s ward) who has been forced to wear an ankle tag. Indeed none of the prisoners remember this having happened to a political prisoner before.