Reuters - Jailed British-Iranian aid worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has been temporarily released in Iran for two weeks, her husband said on Tuesday.

Zaghari-Ratcliffe, 40, a project manager with the Thomson Reuters Foundation, was arrested in April 2016 at a Tehran airport as she headed back to Britain with her daughter after a family visit.

She was sentenced to five years in jail after being convicted of plotting to overthrow Iran�s clerical establishment.

Her husband Richard, who has set up the �Free Nazanin� campaign group and lobbied the British government to secure his wife�s release, said in a statement she had been temporarily released on furlough from Evin Prison and was now staying at her parents� home in West Tehran.

�Unfortunately, Nazanin will be exceptionally required to wear an ankle tag during the furlough, which her parents have now hired from the authorities,� Richard Ratcliffe said. �Nazanin�s movements will be restricted to 300 meters from her parents� home.�

Earlier this month Ratcliffe said he feared his wife had contracted coronavirus but the Iranian judiciary said she was in good health.

On Tuesday, a judiciary spokesman said Iran had temporarily freed about 85,000 people from jail, including political prisoners, in response to the coronavirus epidemic.

�I am relieved that Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe was today temporarily released into the care of her family in Iran,� British foreign minister Dominic Raab said in a statement.

�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.�

Reporting by Michael Holden; editing by Grant McCool, William Maclean