Spaniard imprisoned in Iran after visiting grave of Mahsa Amini arrives dwelling after launch

MADRID (AP) — A Spaniard who spent 15 months in an Iranian jail after visiting the tomb of Mahsa Amini returned dwelling to Madrid on Tuesday after being launched.

“I can’t believe it. This has been very hard, but I am here. We have no idea how fortunate we are to have been born in his country,” Santiago Sánchez Cogedor instructed a gaggle of reporters on the airport after he was embraced by household and mates upon arrival.

Sánchez Cogedor was on a solo strolling trek to the lads’s soccer World Cup in Qatar when he was arrested in Iran in October 2022. His arrest adopted his go to to the tomb of Amini, a girl whose loss of life whereas being held by Iran’s morality police for violating Iran’s Islamic costume code sparked protests within the nation.

He remained behind bars till Iran’s embassy to Spain introduced his launch on Sunday.

The 41-year-old was strolling all the way in which from Spain with the aim of reaching Qatar to assist Spain’s nationwide workforce at soccer’s greatest international occasion.

Sánchez Cogedor stated that he wouldn’t touch upon politics, however he learn to reporters what he known as a diploma given to him by his fellow prisoners in Iran that indicated he had “passed the test of life.”