{"id":53886,"date":"2025-11-04T16:30:19","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T21:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/iran-releases-two-french-nationals-from-detention\/04\/11\/2025\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T16:30:19","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T21:30:19","slug":"iran-releases-two-french-nationals-from-detention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/iran-releases-two-french-nationals-from-detention\/04\/11\/2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran releases two French nationals from detention"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Iran has released two French nationals who were detained there for more than three years, French President Emmanuel Macron has said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">C\u00e9cile Kohler, 41 and her partner Jacques Paris, 72, have been released from Evin prison, Macron said on Tuesday, with France&#8217;s foreign minister later confirming they were &#8220;safe&#8221; at the embassy in Tehran &#8220;ahead of their final release&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">&#8220;I welcome this first step. The dialogue continues to allow for their return to France as quickly as possible,&#8221; Macron said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The pair, who were arrested in May 2022 during a tourist trip, are believed to be the last French nationals held in Iran.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Last month, they were found guilty of spying on behalf of both France and Israel, and were <a target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cwyplx3xz47o\" class=\"sc-f9178328-0 iCaRzc\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">handed lengthy prison sentences,<\/a> according to Iranian state media reports.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">A number of Europeans have been held by Iran in recent years. France has accused Iran of state hostage-taking and keeping its nationals in conditions akin to torture, something Tehran has denied. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">In a statement to the AFP news agency on Tuesday, the pair&#8217;s Paris-based legal team said the release of Kohler and Paris had &#8220;ended their arbitrary detention which lasted 1,277 days&#8221;. AFP said their families have insisted they are wholly innocent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Their freeing comes more than a month after Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said a deal to exchange French detainees for an Iranian woman held in France was nearly complete. Iran had said Kohler and Paris could be released as part of that agreement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Mahdieh Esfandiari, who has been held in France since February on charges of promoting terrorism on social media, was released conditionally by French authorities last month.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cj0en7ljzjpo?xtor=AL-72-%5Bpartner%5D-%5Byahoo.north.america%5D-%5Bheadline%5D-%5Bnews%5D-%5Bbizdev%5D-%5Bisapi%5D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iran has released two French nationals who were detained there for more than three years, French President Emmanuel Macron has said. 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