Olivier Grondeau, a traveler from Paris, has been held hostage in Iran since
more than two years. He was arbitrarily arrested during a stay in the city of Shiraz on October 12, 2022, then incarcerated in the prisons of Shiraz and Evin (in Tehran), and had until now wished to avoid media coverage of his situation. . This former junior Scrabble champion, avid reader and writer, went on hunger strike in January 2024 in the absence of prospects for the date of his trial. On February 19, he was sentenced to five years in prison for “collecting information with a view to providing it to the enemy's spy service”, charges which he categorically refutes. The sentence was upheld on appeal in May.
His conditions of detention are particularly precarious: Olivier is entitled to weekly calls to his parents and to calls to Iranian numbers according to arbitrarily allocated slots. At the end of his strength, he decided to emerge from anonymity, like the two other French people held by the mullahs' regime, Cécile Kohler and Jacques Paris, on whose behalf he also speaks.
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