she is going to be “40, it’s her third anniversary in prison”, laments her sister Noémie Kohler

Cécile Kohler, detained in Iran for two and a half years, will have “40 years old, it’s his third anniversary in prison,” deplores Noémie Kohler, sister of Cécile Kohler, an Alsatian woman held in Iran for more than two years, to France Bleu Alsace.

On Wednesday, September 25, Cécile Kohler will spend another birthday in prison, she will be 40 years old. “It’s terrible,” her sister testifies. The young woman, a modern literature teacher in Yvelines, was arrested on May 7, 2022 in Iran with her partner Jacques Paris, a 69-year-old former mathematics teacher, while they had come to the country for tourism. Originally from Soultz, in Haut-Rhin, she is being held in Evin prison in Tehran. She and her partner are suspected of espionage by the Iranian state.

Cécile Kohler, like her relatives, still has no news regarding a possible release. “We have no answers to give her, so it’s very hard when we know where and in what conditions she is being held.”continues his sister.

Support rallies are planned for Wednesday, including a peaceful rally in front of the Iranian embassy in Paris starting at 5 p.m., to call for “the Iranian authorities on the injustice of which Cécile is a victim.” A second gathering will take place in Alsace, at 3:30 p.m. in front of the town hall of Erstein (Bas-Rhin) next Saturday, at the call of the Amnesty International association.