French-Iranian researcher Fariba Adelkah, who has been detained in Iran since 2019 and placed under house arrest in 2020, has been sent back to prison in Tehran, her support committee in Paris announced today.
“We learn with astonishment and indignation about the return of Fariba Adelkah to Evin prison,” the commission said in a statement, denouncing the “cynical” behavior of the Iranian government, which uses the investigator’s case “for external or internal purposes.” they remain difficult to understand. “
“As the Covid pandemic continues to sweep (the country) the Iranian government is deliberately endangering the health and even the life of Fariba Adelkah with the death in custody of poet and director Baktas Abtin last Saturday showing her incompetence. “or its bad intention to guarantee the safety of its detainees,” the commission said.
Arrested in June 2019 and sentenced in May 2020 to five years in prison for attacks on national security, the French-Iranian investigator had been placed under house arrest since October 2020.
For his part, the French Foreign Minister demanded the immediate release of Fariba Adelkach.
“The decision to send us back to prison, which we condemn, can only have a negative impact on the relationship between France and Iran and reduce trust between the two countries,” the French Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
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