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Free Fariba Adelkhah, French academic held in Iran | Pod Hostage Diplomacy
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French academic Fariba Adelkhah has been wrongfully imprisoned in Iran since 5 June 2019. French President Emmanuel Macron has called for Fariba’s immediate release and denounced her incarceration as “totally arbitrary”. President Macron also stated that “Fariba Adelkhah is a scientific prisoner”. Scholars At Risk have called for Fariba’s immediate release and for the protection of academic freedom in Iran and beyond. On this episode, we have the honour of speaking to Fariba’s colleague and member of the Free Fariba Support Committee, Sandrine Perrot.
Sandrine walks us through what happened to Fariba, her background, the conditions she’s being held in, her health issues as well as her unfair trial and sentence. Sandrine also talks about how the Free Fariba Support Committee was created, the toll Fariba’s imprisonment has taken on her loved ones, what the French government and European Union can do to free Fariba as well as how journalists and the public can help.
If you prefer, you can watch the video version of this interview on YouTube.
For more information on Fariba Adelkhah and her partner, Roland Marchal, please check out the following:
- Our previous episode: Ep 5
- Free Fariba Adelkhah and Roland Marchal Support Committee website
- Free Fariba and Roland Twitter account
- Social media hashtag: FreeFariba
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