10 October 2020 :

Narges Mohammadi was released from Zanjan Central Prison early this morning. A leading advocate for the abolition of the death penalty in Iran, Mohammadi was jailed in 2016 for founding a campaign group that was deemed to be an illegal splinter group.
The 48-year-old activist had been repeatedly targeted by the Iranian judiciary. She received an 11-year sentence in 2012 but was soon released on medical grounds. In 2015, she was arrested again to face new charges. Eventually, she was sentenced to a total of 16 years for allegedly planning crimes threatening national security, spreading propaganda against the government and forming and managing an illegal group.
According to ISNA and Tasnim news agency, and quoting Esmail Sadeghi Niaraki, the Chief Justice of Zanjan Province, Narges Mohammadi was released from prison in Zanjan Central Prison. In his speech, Niaraki said that her 10-year sentence was reduced after applying new legislation aimed at sentence reductions.
Taghi Rahmani, Mohammadi’s husband tweeted that Mohammadi was released from Zanjan Prison at 3 a.m.
Narges Mohammadi had been detained since 5 May 2015 and had served out her sentence in Evin and Zanjan Prisons.
Mohammadi who was the deputy director of the Defenders of Human Rights Centre (DHRC) prior to her arrest, continued her human rights activism in prison. She protested against the brutal suppression of the November 2019 nationwide protests in Iran which led to the death of hundreds of protesters. Following her protest along with several other women in Evin’s women’s ward, she was transferred to Zanjan Prison on 25 December 2019.
In July 2020, the United Nations called for her release after she was reported to have been showing symptoms of COVID-19. In August, her husband said she appeared to have recovered. Despite suffering from severe illnesses, Narges Mohammadi was only granted three days leave over her five-year detention.

https://iranhr.net/en/articles/4459/

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-rights-idUSKBN26T1Q4