The President of the Republic Emmanuel Macron claimed by a tweet in the evening of Tuesday, December 10 the release " without delay " of two French researchers held in Iran since June. A situation "Intolerable", according to the head of state.
"On this International Human Rights Day, I think of Fariba Adelkhah and Roland Marchal, our compatriots detained in Iran, and their families. "
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Since June, Tehran has held the Iranian-French anthropologist Fariba Adelkhah, specialist of Shiism and research director at the International Research Center (CERI) of Sciences Po in Paris, as well as the specialist of the Horn of Africa Roland Marchal and researcher at the same institute. The first is accused of espionage and the second of "Collusion against national security".
Suspend any cooperation
Paris has repeatedly called on the Iranian authorities, to no avail, their release. Judging such a charge "Grotesque"In October, confreres of the two researchers called on France to suspend all scientific and academic cooperation with Iran in protest.
The statement of Mr. Macron intervened when he receives dinner at the Elysee ministers and leaders of the majority to agree one last time on the pension reform that his prime minister Edouard Philippe must submit in detail Wednesday at midday.
