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The relatives of Cécile Kohler, 40 years old, and Jacques Paris, 72 years old, have heard from the two hostages detained in Iran for more than three years. Their support committee deplores the "dramatic situation" of the...
Cécile Kohler's last appeal, this Saturday, September 13, was a major concern for her family. On May 7, this Frenchwoman and her companion Jacques Paris had been detained in Evin's prison in Iran for three years. With ELLE, Noémie Kohler was alerting her to health...
Iran’s Hostage-Taking Policy: State Blackmail as Diplomacy - Iran News Update
The imprisonment of Cecile Kohler and other foreign nationals exposes Tehran’s systematic use of hostage-taking as a tool of statecraft and repression. Hostage-taking, once a criminal tactic of rogue groups, has become an institutionalized state policy in Iran. The brief cry for help — “I can’t take it anymore” — from French citizen Cecile Kohler during a phone call to her family encapsulates the depth of this tragedy. Kohler and her partner, J…
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