Cécile Kohler and Jacques Paris, a French couple arrested in May 2022 in Iran and accused by the authorities of “espionage”, are “in good health”, Iranian justice assured Tuesday. “These two people are detained in good conditions and in good health,” Iranian judiciary spokesman Asghar Jahangir said at a press conference in Tehran. The couple’s family reported in October “alarming information” regarding “their physical and psychological state”.
The coupe held separately in the harsh Evin prison
Cécile Kohler, modern literature teacher, was arrested during a trip with her partner in May 2022 to Iran and is accused of “espionage”. They are detained in Evin prison in Tehran, and their families have very little news during phone calls that last only a few minutes monitored by the authorities.
The couple is detained – separately – in section 209 of Evin prison, one of the harshest with windowless cells, according to the Kohler family, who are demanding their “immediate transfer” to the political prisoners’ section, ” to less inhumane conditions.
A third Frenchman detained
A third Frenchman, whose name has not been made public, is also detained in Iran, a country accused of practicing “hostage diplomacy” by arresting Westerners without reason to use them as bargaining chips during negotiations. state to state.
On October 17, the head of French diplomacy Jean-Noël Barrot received the families of the three French people and assured them of the “mobilization of the French authorities to obtain their immediate release”.
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