Iran and France prisoner swap researcher, engineer


Senegalese artist Alioune Diagne perfoming on the Trocadero esplanade near the Eiffel Tower in Paris on February 11, 2020, during a gathering in support of French-Iranian academic Fariba Abdelkhah and French academic Roland Marchal, detained in Iran since June 2019. Marchal was released yesterday. – AFP pic, March 21, 2020.

PRESIDENT Emmanuel Macron announced today that Iran has freed a French researcher imprisoned in the Islamic republic after France released an Iranian threatened with extradition to the US.

Macron “is happy to announce the release of Roland Marchal, imprisoned in Iran since June 2019” but he “urges the Iranian authorities to immediately free” Fariba Adelkhah, an anthropologist, his office said.


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