Muscat: Oman helped facilitate the release of Canadian-Iranian professor, Homa Hoodfar, who has been detained in Iran since June.
Hoodfar landed in Muscat on Monday evening on an air force jet and was greeted by her niece, Oman’s state news agency reported.
Oman, an ally of the West that also maintains good relations with Tehran, has previously helped facilitate prisoner exchanges between Iran and the US.
Hoodfar, 65, was questioned and barred from leaving Iran in March after travelling to the country to visit family following the death of her husband.
Her family said she has been held in Tehran’s Evin Prison since June. Hoodfar until recently taught anthropology and sociology at Montreal’s Concordia University.
In July, Iran announced indictments for Hoodfar and three others, without providing any details about the accusations.
In recent weeks, Hoodfar’s supporters described her health as deteriorating while she was in solitary confinement, saying she was “barely able to walk or talk”.
