Human rights activist Narges Mohammadi, who is imprisoned in Iran on charges including spreading propaganda, had her jail term suspended to undergo medical treatment.

Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi has been temporarily released from prison in Iran. Her release on Wednesday for three weeks comes after she underwent a complex surgery that saw part of a bone in her right leg removed over cancer fears.

Iranian authorities on Wednesday freed Nobel peace prize winner Narges Mohammadi from prison for three weeks on medical grounds, a move supporters decried as "too little too late" and the UN said needed to be transformed into an unconditional freedom.