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7 Apr 2026, 16:23

On Tuesday, April 6, the President of France announced that two French citizens who had been detained in Iran are on their way back to their country. Emmanuel Macron wrote on X: "Cécile Kohler and Jacques Paris have been released after three and a half years of detention in Iran and are on their way back to France." These two French citizens were released in November after more than three years in prison on charges of espionage. A source in the French Foreign Ministry stated that they left Iran early Tuesday morning with the French ambassador as part of a diplomatic convoy and "are currently in Azerbaijan." Cécile Kohler and her partner Jacques Paris were arrested in May 2022 and spent their imprisonment in Evin Prison. They were accused of attempting to "incite labor protests," a charge that their families strongly denied.
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The state news agency IRNA reported that the release of Cécile Kohler and Jacques Paris, two French citizens, was part of an agreement between Tehran and Paris, and France had committed to the release of Mahdieh Esfandiari and to withdraw its complaint against the Islamic Republic at the International Court of Justice. Mahdieh Esfandiari, an Iranian citizen, was sentenced in March 2025 by a court in Paris to four years in prison and a permanent ban on entering French territory for "glorifying terrorism" by supporting the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel through social media.
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