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Iran Frees 2 French Prisoners But Bars Them From Leaving
- On Tuesday, President Emmanuel Macron announced Cécile Kohler and Jacques Paris were freed from Tehran's Evin prison after more than 3 years and were en route to the French Embassy in Tehran.
- Arrested in May 2022, the couple faced spying charges Iran linked to France and Israel, but the French government and families called the accusations unjustified.
- Iran had said the release could be part of a swap involving Mahdieh Esfandiari, Iranian national detained in France, who was conditionally released last month and is now at the Iranian embassy in Paris.
- French diplomats reported they were in good health at the residence of the French ambassador in Tehran and were awaiting their definitive release from Iran.
- France had taken the case to the International Court of Justice and their Paris-based legal team said the release ended an arbitrary detention which lasted 1,277 days, closing years of negotiations.
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Iran frees two French nationals from prison, Macron says
Iran has released two French nationals imprisoned there for more than three years, French President Emmanuel Macron said on Tuesday, in an apparent exchange for an Iranian student who was conditionally freed in October.
·United Kingdom
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The two French hostages Cécile Kohler and Jacques Paris came out of their Iranian prison. "A relief", for the members of the support committee of Manchois.
The return to the Hexagon of the two French nationals still in Iran seems to be linked to the fate of the Iranian citizen tried in France in January for "apology and online provocation to terrorism".
·Paris, France
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