US EditionCitizens as Bargaining Chips: Australia Is Lagging on Hostage Diplomacy
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EDITORIAL. Detained since 2022 in inhumane conditions by Tehran, Cécile Kohler and Jacques Paris are innocent, pawns in the game of a dictatorial regime abject.
Citizens as Bargaining Chips: Australia is Lagging on Hostage Diplomacy
Sarah Myatt | Australian Foreign Policy FellowImage sourced from Vilius Kukanauskas via Pixabay.Hostage diplomacy threatens not only individual human rights but defies the very foundations of a global rules-based order and collective international security. The wrongful and arbitrary detention of citizens to pressure another nation, often termed ‘hostage diplomacy’, is increasingly being pursued by authoritarian regimes as a desperate means of l…
On the sidelines of the demonstration in support of Cécile Kohler and his companion Jacques Paris in Mulhouse Friday evening 4 July and a few hours from a great gathering in Paris, this Sunday 6 July at 3 p.m. at the Pantheon, Pascal Kohler, the father of the Alsatian hostage, tells the anguish and indescribable.
Investigation into the rumored family connection between Cécile Kohler, a hostage held in Iran, and Alexis Kohler, a former advisor to Macron. Published on July 5, 2025 at 12:30 p.m. – By Chloé Fontaine – Reading time: 8 minutes Listen to the article here Play Pause Stop /* Modernized button, collapsed */ .modern-btn { padding: 8px 16px; font-size: 14px; border: none; border-radius: 4px; background-color: #0073aa; color: #fff; cursor: pointer; t…
"Let us not forget that, three years ago, at the time of the worst repressions against the "Woman, Life, Freedom" movement, its true nature appeared to us in full light. Let us not forget that, today, we call again and again for the release of our compatriots Cécile Kohler and Jacques Paris, held in the Iranian jails for the sole purpose of serving an abject diplomacy of the hostages" (François Bayrou, July 2, 2025 in the Senate). (...) Internat…
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