Poland reports that Iran has released a Polish scientist detained for espionage

14 Jan. () –

The Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs has reported this Friday the release of a Polish university professor who was detained in Iran in September 2021.

Foreign Ministry spokesman Lukasz Jasina has confirmed that Professor Marcin Walczak, a Polish biologist, was released from prison in Iran in December “and returned to his homeland,” according to what he told the PAP news agency.

“He is safe and sound. It is good that he is at home,” added the spokesman for the ministerial portfolio.

Walczak is a biologist at the Department of Environmental Microbiology and Biotechnology at the Faculty of Biological and Veterinary Sciences at the Nicolaus Copernicus University in the Polish city of Torun.

Iran is being politically condemned internationally for applying the death penalty to people detained in the anti-government protests that have devastated the country since September, since society took to the streets after the death of the young Kurdish woman Mahsa Amini.