Emmanuel Macron demanded, Tuesday, December 10, the release "without delay" of two French researchers detained in Iran since June.

"On this International Human Rights Day, I think of Fariba Adelkhah and Roland Marchal, our compatriots detained in Iran, and their families, whose imprisonment is intolerable and who must be released without delay. President Rohani, I repeat here, "tweeted the head of the French state.

On this International Human Rights Day, I think of Fariba Adelkhah and Roland Marchal, our compatriots detained in Iran, and their families. Their imprisonment is intolerable. They must be released without delay. I told President Rohani, I repeat it here.

- Emmanuel Macron (@EmmanuelMacron) December 10, 2019

Since June, Tehran has owned the French-Iranian anthropologist Fariba Adelkhah, specialist in Shiism and research director at the International Research Center of Sciences Po in Paris, as well as the specialist of the Horn of Africa Roland Marchal, researcher at the same institute . The first is accused of espionage and the second of "collusion against national security".

Paris has repeatedly asked Tehran, in vain, the release of the two researchers. Judging such a "grotesque" accusation, colleagues of the two researchers called in October France to suspend all scientific and academic cooperation with Iran in protest.

Iran has in the past already arrested and sentenced French nationals. In 2010, the university Clotilde Reiss, who was arrested in 2009 and sentenced to two terms of five years in prison for "espionage", had finally been fined and returned to France.

With AFP


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