Press TV- An Iranian deputy foreign minister says two Iranian lawmakers arrested in Kenya last month have been released. ��

Hassan Qashqavi, the Iranian deputy foreign minister for consular, parliamentary and expatriates' affairs, said on Wednesday that Abdolhossein Safaei and Nasrollah Ebrahimi were released following a ruling by a court in the Kenyan capital city of Nairobi.

Qashqavi, who traveled to Kenya at the head of a delegation to pursue the case of the lawyers, said the two were released following several rounds of negotiations with Kenya�s political, judiciary and police officials and after the Iranian Foreign Ministry and the country�s embassy in the African country followed up on the case.

On December 2, Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi said Safaei and Ebrahimi were �attorneys-at-law at [Iran�s] Justice Ministry and university professors� who had traveled to Nairobi �upon the request of�the families of two Iranian prisoners in Kenya to follow up on their case and provide legal counseling.�

He added that the pair had been arrested on November 29 by the Kenyan police because of "a misunderstanding" but�were released later in the day after being questioned.

The Kenyan police, however, once again detained the lawyers two days later, following the intrusion�of �some�third parties� into the case, the Iranian spokesperson explained.