This Tuesday, the Facebook page “Liberty for Cécile” published news from Cécile Kohler, owned in Iran for three years.
News from Cécile Kohler. According to the Facebook page “Liberty for Cécile”, the teacher, owned in Iran for 1,095 days, was able to call her parents.
She confides “still having nothing to write, so she composes poems in her head and repeats them every evening so as not to forget them”. “They did not receive new books either,” she tells her father.
Forty mobilizations
May 7 marks a painful date for the relatives of Cécile Kohler and Jacques Paris. It has been three years since the couple of French teachers has been held in Iran. Forty rallies take place in France this Wednesday to claim their release. During the phone call with her relatives, Cécile Kohler asked her dad to “warmly thank everyone mobilized”.
-She adds that: “If you don’t go crazy, it is thanks to support and mobilization. We know that it is unprecedented,” she told her father, according to the support page.
The 40 -year -old professor of letters and her septuagenarian companion had been arrested on the last day of a tourist trip to Iran. Accused of spying, they are imprisoned in the sinister section 209, reserved for political prisoners, of the prison of Evin de Tehran.
“They are (…) imprisoned in the jails of the Iranian regime in inhuman conditions which are torture. This situation is unacceptable,” said Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot, stressing that these French citizens are “victims of the Iranian regime, victims of arbitrary, victim of injustice”.
Denouncing a “state hostage” policy which spares no stranger, he once again urges the French not to go to Iran “so as not to take the risk of being arbitrarily detained”.
