The Franco-Iranian anthropologist Fariba Adelkhah was sentenced on Saturday May 16 to five years in prison by an Iranian court for "collusion in order to attack national security," his lawyer Said Dehghan told AFP.

According to the latter, the researcher was also sentenced to one year for "propaganda against the political system" of the Islamic Republic, but she must serve only the longest sentence. This conviction can nevertheless be appealed.

On March 21, President Emmanuel Macron called for the "immediate release" of the Franco-Iranian anthropologist.

Research director at the Sciences Po international research center in Paris, Fariba Adelkhah, who is 60 years old, was arrested in June 2019 by the Guardians of the Islamic Revolution on suspicion of spying, punishable by the death penalty in Iran.

In January, Iranian justice dropped the accusation of espionage against the anthropologist - of whom Tehran does not recognize dual nationality - who, however, remained accused of propaganda against the system and collusion against national security.

His companion Roland Marchal, released on March 20, had been detained for nine months in Iran.

With AFP

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