Tehran, Iran:
Iran stated on Tuesday that French nationwide Cecile Kohler and his companion Jacques Paris, who’ve been imprisoned since 2022, are in “good well being”, denying latest claims that the state of affairs is worsening. did.
Kohler and his companion have been imprisoned in Iran since May 2022 on costs of espionage, which is punishable by loss of life within the Islamic Republic.
In October 2022, Iranian state tv broadcast what it stated was a “confession to espionage” by two French detainees.
The French authorities condemned the published of the alleged confession as “shameful, repugnant and unacceptable” and described the 2 males as “hostages of the state”.
Last month, dozens of individuals held demonstrations in Paris to denounce the couple’s “alarming” bodily and psychological situation, as described by Kohler’s sister Noémie Kohler.
Earlier, French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrault met with the households of French nationals held in Iran and stated the federal government was calling for his or her fast launch.
They are amongst European passport holders detained in Iran, a few of whom are twin nationals. Iran doesn’t acknowledge twin citizenship.
On October 28, Iran executed Jamshid Sharmahad, a 69-year-old German-Iranian who was sentenced to loss of life in February 2023 on the capital offense of “corruption on earth.”
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