In April a court in the self-declared republic of Somaliland sentenced Qorane to three years in jail for bringing the state into contempt.
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She had been released without conditions after her family appealed to the president for a pardon, her lawyer Mubarak Abdi Ismail told BBC Somali.
“I am happy. She is happy,” he added.
During her trial the prosecution said Ms Qorane – who is from Somaliland – had labelled the breakaway state a “region” and “insulted and defamed” its government.
Somaliland seceded from the rest of Somalia after the overthrow of long-serving ruler Siad Barre in 1991.
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