Iran releases jailed Texas graduate student

Members of the Iran's Revolutionary Guard march during an annual military parade marking the 34th anniversary of outset of the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq war, in front of the mausoleum of the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini just outside Tehran, Iran, Monday, Sept. 22, 2014.(Photo: Ebrahim Noroozi, AP)

Iran has released a Texas graduate student from jail after five years, state media reported Tuesday. 

The government-owned IRAN Daily quoted Omid Kokabee’s lawyer as saying his client will be allowed to enjoy “conditional freedom” for the rest of his 10-year sentence, according to the Associated Press. 

The lawyer, Saeed Khalili, said Kokabee, who was released from jail in April for medical treatment, “will not return to prison, any more,” the news agency said. 

Kokabee, an Iranian, studied optics in the physics department at the University of Texas.  He was arrested in 2011 while visiting his family and was convicted of having “relations with a hostile country” and receiving “illegitimate funds,” the AP said.