Iran frees jailed Nobel laureate Narges Mohammadi for 21 days on medical grounds

Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi has been released from prison for 21 days following surgery on her leg (Narges Foundation Archive via AP)

Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi was temporarily released from prison in Iran on Wednesday after undergoing a complex surgery to remove part of a bone in her right leg over cancer fears, her supporters said.

Video footage from the capital, Tehran, showed Ms Mohammadi, 52, taken out of the back of an ambulance, her black hair fanned out without the required hijab covering it as she called out into the street. Her right leg was covered in a fabric cast.