Reuters - Irans appeals court has confirmed a five-year prison sentence for Iranian-French academic Fariba Adelkhah on security charges, the Mizan news agency reported on Tuesday. Adelkhah was sentenced in May to a total of six years in prison and her lawyer said she would appeal against the sentence. Earlier this month, France demanded that ...

Al-Monitor - Emmanuel Macron made the comments on the one-year anniversary of Fariba Adelkah's imprisonment. The French president is calling on Iran to release a dual-citizen academic imprisoned there. Emmanuel Macron said that Iranian-French anthropologist Fariba Adelkhah should be released on the one-year anniversary of her imprisonment. It ...

IRNA - Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Abbas Mousavi on Friday said that French officials must end interference in Iran's internal affairs. The issue of Iranian national Fariba Adelkhah has been subject to an independent and fair judicial process; the high-ranking diplomat said, adding that she has been convicted and is serving her sentence. Political ...

Reuters - French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian on Friday reiterated his demands for Iran to release French-Iranian academic Fariba Adelkhah, whom Iran has sentenced to six years in prison on national security charges. Today, I once again formally demand on behalf of France the immediate liberation by Iran of Madame Adelkhah, Le Drian said ...

FNA - Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Seyed Abbas Mousavi lashed out at French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian for his recent remarks on Iran, stressing that Tehran does not tolerate meddling in its judicial affairs. The Islamic Republic of Iran will not tolerate at all any discrediting of its principles of governance, including independence ...

Reuters - Frances foreign minister said on Tuesday that relations with Iran had become more difficult after Tehran sentenced a French-Iranian academic to prison in what he said was a politically motivated decision. This sentencing was founded on no serious elements and was politically motivated. So we firmly say to the Iranian authorities to release ...

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Reuters - France on Saturday demanded immediate release of French-Iranian academic Fariba Adelkhah. This sentencing is not based on any serious element or fact and is thus a political decision, the French Foreign Ministry said in a statement. We are urging Iranian authorities to immediately release Mrs Adelkhah. Iran has sentenced Adelkhah to ...

Tehran Times - A court in Iran has sentenced Fariba Adelkhah, a senior research fellow at Sciences Po University in Paris, to six years in prison on national security charges. According to Adelkhahs lawyer, she was sentenced to five years in jail for gathering and conspiring against national security, as well as one year for propaganda against the ...

Tasnim Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Seyed Abbas Mousavi deplored a recent statement by the French Foreign Ministry about an imprisoned Iranian national as an act of interference and said it lacks any legal value. The French Foreign Ministrys statement on an Iranian citizen is an act of interference and we consider the French request (for ...

MNA The French Foreign Ministry has summoned the Iranian ambassador over the detention of two French scientists by Iran. The envoy "was reminded of France's demand that Fariba Adelkhah and Roland Marchal be released without delay, and that the Iranian authorities display transparency concerning their situation," AFP reported, quoting the French ...

Press TV - Iran has rejected Frances interference in its internal affairs as unacceptable, saying Tehran will not tolerate Paris' meddlesome remarks. In a post on his Twitter page on Wednesday, Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Abbas Mousavi dismissed President Emmanuelle Macrons call for Tehran to free two jailed French nationals. The French ...

Reuters - French President Emmanuel Macron said on Tuesday the imprisonment of two French nationals in Iran was unbearable and demanded their immediate release, in a case that complicates French efforts to defuse tension between Washington and Tehran. On Human Rights Day, my thoughts go to Fariba Adelkhah and Roland Marchal, our compatriots held ...

IRNA - Foreign Ministry spokesman Abbas Mousavi described the French Foreign Ministry's meddling in the case of Iranian nationals as irrelevant and without legal validity, adding that not only these measures will not help resolve the issue, it will also complicate the judicial process. Responding to the French Foreign Ministry spokesman's interfering ...