Sister says jailed French couple in Iran are at breaking point

Emmanuel Macron assured Wednesday to act "unrelentingly" to have the two French nationals released.

Sister says jailed French couple in Iran are at breaking point

Locked in a windowless cell with the lights on day and night, French teacher Cécile Kohler and her partner Jacques Paris on Wednesday marked three years in Iran’s notorious Evin Prison. As the anniversary passes, Kohler’s sister has told RFI their situation is unbearable and deteriorating fast.

Several thousand people, including 300 in Paris, demonstrated this Wednesday, May 7, in 45 cities in France to demand the release of Cécile Kohler and Jacques Paris, State hostages in Iran for three years. In Alsace, more than 500 supporters were counted in Cernay, Colmar, Mulhouse, Séletat and Strasbourg.

Several thousand people, including 300 in Paris, demonstrated this Wednesday, May 7, in 45 cities in France to demand the release of Cécile Kohler and Jacques Paris, State hostages in Iran for three years. In Alsace, more than 500 supporters were counted in Cernay, Colmar, Mulhouse, Séletat and Strasbourg.

Arrested in Iran on 7 May 2022 and accused to the wrong of espionage, Cécile Kohler and Jacques Paris have been detained for three years in Iran under conditions "that violate fundamental rights" according to their support committee, which called for rallies throughout France on Wednesday, 7 May to ask for their release.The article Montpellier: mobilisation for the release of Cécile Kohler and Jacques Paris, detained in Iran for three years appe…

For three years now, Cécile Kohler, a French teacher, and his companion Jacques Paris have been locked up in Evin's prison in Tehran. A windowless cell, lit 24 hours a day, where time seems to be stopped. As Cécile's sister, Noémie, turns the alarm bell: their condition is rapidly deteriorating. "They are at the end of their forces. Jacques' face is becoming more and more marked... We feel that he is slowly extinguishing," she confided to RFI. "…