Reuters - Iran has released a French citizen arrested for entering the country illegally after other charges were dropped, the state news agency IRNA reported on Sunday, days after France�s foreign minister discussed her case in parliament.

On Wednesday, Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian told lawmakers France was in touch with Iran to improve the conditions of the woman arrested in October on Iran�s Gulf island of Kish for allegedly signing an illegal mining contract.

�A French national who had been detained for unauthorised entry into Iran has been released in the past few days after legal proceedings took their course and other charges were dropped,� Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Qasemi was quoted as saying by IRNA.

Qasemi did not give further details, but Le Drian said on Wednesday that the woman was held �on the grounds of having signed an illegal contract and carrying out a non-authorised trip�.

Nelly Erin-Cambervelle, a 59-year-old businesswoman from Martinique, had been on Kish - a free-trade zone allowing visa-free entry for visitors from most countries - as part of her import-export business.