Fariba Adelkhah, who had been placed under house arrest in 2020, was jailed again in Tehran on Wednesday.
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“This incarceration is based on absolutely no evidence. It is indeed a scientific prisoner.” Emmanuel Macron denounced Thursday, January 13, during a speech before university presidents in Paris, the reincarceration “completely arbitrary” in Tehran of the Franco-Iranian researcher Fariba Adelkhah, stating that “the whole of France” was “mobilized for his release”.
This reincarceration made the French Foreign Ministry react on Wednesday. “The decision (…) which we condemn, can only have negative consequences on the relationship between France and Iran and reduce confidence between our two countries”, the Foreign Ministry said in a statement, demanding the “immediate release” of the researcher.
The anthropologist Fariba Adelkhah is a researcher at the Center for International Research (CERI) of Sciences Po Paris and a specialist in Shiism. She and her companion, the Africanist Roland Marchal, who came to join her for a private visit, were arrested on June 5, 2019 at Tehran airport by the Revolutionary Guards, the ideological army of the Islamic Republic. Roland Marchal was released on March 20, 2020 as part of an exchange of detainees between Tehran and Paris.