Las Iranian authorities freed a citizen of France detained since September 2022, announced the president of the European country, Emmanuel Macronurging islamic government to release “without delay” three more of its citizens.
Louis Arnaud is free. Tomorrow he will be in France after an excessively long imprisonment in Iran,” Macron wrote in X, especially thanking Oman for its help in achieving this “happy outcome.”
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Arnaudwho is a banking consultant in his 30swas sentenced last year to five years in prison on national security charges after being detained while traveling through Iranian territory.
His arrest occurred in the context of the protests that shook Iran at the end of 2022 due to death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish womanwhen she was in custody for violating the rules of dress for women in the Islamic Republic.
The family of Arnaud He stated that he “had stayed away from the social movements that were beginning” at that time, and added that “at no time did he act with political intentions or any carelessness.”
Louis Arnaud left Evin prison at dawn on Wednesday. “He saw a doctor who gave him the go-ahead to take the plane,” a French diplomatic source told the AFP news agency, adding that he was in Oman, from where he would travel to the city of Paris.
Arnaud was one of the four French citizens held by Iran. The other three are the teacher Cecile Kohler and your partner Jacques Parisand a man identified only by his first name, Olivier.
Our joy is immense, but it will not be complete until Cécile, Jacques and Olivier return,” Sylvie Arnaud, Louis Arnaud’s mother, told AFP.
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3 more French detainees are in Iran after Arnaud’s release: two men and a woman.
With information from AFP.
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2024-06-14 01:22:15