#espionage-charges

#espionage-charges

Iran jailed two French citizens on various charges including "espionage" on behalf of France and of Israel, Iran's state judicial news agency Mizan announced on Tuesday. Only two French nationals are known to be in Iranian detention, Cecile Kohler and Jacques Paris, who were first detained in May 2022. A teenage Franco-German cyclist, Lennart Monterlos, was released last week after a court acquitted him of espionage charges.

The family of a British couple detained in Iran on espionage charges have said they will keep pushing for their release for years if needed, as they express alarm over ongoing trial proceedings and the pair's welfare. Lindsay and Craig Foreman, both 52 and who previously split their time between Spain and England, were seized in January in Kerman, southern Iran, while travelling on a round-the-world motorbike trip.