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Two Australian and Franco-Iranian academics, whose arrests were confirmed several months ago, began an unlimited hunger strike last Tuesday to protest their detention in Evin prison, north of Tehran. This Sunday, the Iranian authorities denounce the " interference " of Paris in the file of the anthropologist Fariba Adelkhah.
The convocation on Friday by the Quai d'Orsay of the Iranian ambassador to France does not pass. The French Ministry of Foreign Affairs had denounced to the Iranian diplomat the " intolerable " detention of the Franco-Iranian anthropologist Fariba Adelkhah and the French researcher Roland Marchal.
Friends, both have been detained for at least six months in Iran , respectively for "spying" and "collusion against national security".
French diplomacy had asked for consular access and their " immediate release ". A request qualified by Iran as an act of " interference " " without legal basis ". Not surprisingly, the Islamic Republic does not recognize the dual nationality of Ms. Adelkhah.
With regard to the Australian academic, the Iranian foreign minister said he would not give in to propaganda, alluding to certain articles published in the Australian press questioning the accusations of "spying for the benefit of 'a third country' against the researcher. After losing her call, Kylie Moore-Gilbert will have to serve a 10-year sentence.
The two women, Kylie Moore-Gilbert and Fariba Adelkhah, say in a letter that they have been subjected to " psychological torture " and numerous violations of basic human rights. They started a hunger strike five days ago.
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