Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, a British-Iranian woman who has been in prison in Tehran since April 2016 following a conviction for sedition, was freed for three days on Thursday. “Nazanin was released from Evin prison on furlough this morning. Initially, the release is for three days – her lawyer is hopeful this can be extended,” her husband Richard Ratcliffe said in a statement. Ratcliffe said his wife, who has denied all charges filed against her, was currently with her parents and her four-year-old daughter Gabriella in Damavand, a mountain resort near Tehran. “This was a very happy surprise after a number of false dawns recently, which had been increasingly unsettling,” her husband said. Ratcliffe expressed gratitude to those in Tehran and London who contributed in her release, including British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt. Zaghari-Ratcliffe, who works for the Thomson Reuters Foundation, was arrested at Tehran airport in April 2016. She is serving a five-year jail sentence for sedition – a charge she has always contested. Ratcliffe and his supporters have held multiple protests and vigils in London to seek her release Zaghari-Ratcliffe was not allowed to call her family and had to borrow a phone from someone outside the prison to call her brother, who lives in Tehran, to pick her up from prison upon her temporary release. She then called her husband and the British embassy and traveled to join her family in Damavand. “I cried so much. I felt so overwhelmed,” she said of the reunion, according to a statement released by The Free Nazanin campaign, which is run by her husband. Zaghari-Ratcliffe was told she must return to prison on Sunday and the two conditions of her release are that she not give any media interviews or visit the grounds of any foreign embassy. Bail for her temporary release was set at one billion rials ($23,840, 20,590 euros), with her familys home in Tehran used as collateral, the campaign said.