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2020-01-08 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
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Iran drops spying charge held against French-Iranian academic
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| How very unexpected, given Iran’s glorious limited bombardment of some empty Iraqi fields yesterday |
[Rudaw] Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan, the abbreviation IRGC is a cognate form of Stürmabteilung (or SA), the term Supreme Guide is a cognate form of either Shah or Führer or maybe both, and they hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
has dropped a spying charge held against a French-Iranian academic researcher, who has been arbitrarily detained by authorities since June 2019.
Fariba Adelkhah, an anthropologist specialising in Shiite Islam at Sciences-Po in Gay Paree, was being held on four charges. "The espionage charge has been dropped," lawyer Said Dehghan told AFP.
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A second charge of "undermining public order" was also dropped by the prosecution, Dehghan said.
Espionage is a crime punishable by the death penalty
 in Iran.
However,
some people cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go...
Adelkhah remains charged on two other, less severe counts; "propaganda" against the Islamic Theocratic Republic , and "conspiring against national security."
Adelkhah and fellow Sciences-Po academic Roland Marchal were arrested and detained on the same day in June 2019, but at different locations; Adelkhah at her apartment, and Marchal, who had flown into the country to see her, at Tehran's airport.
Their detention at the capital city's notorious Evin prison was the first of Frenchies in Iran for a decade.
Marchal, a French national charged with 'collusion against national security', has had access to one consular visit per month during his detention. He had 'not been subject to mistreatment and is able to access medical care,' a member of French consular staff said in October.
However,
some people cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go...
Tehran considers Adelkhah, a French-Iranian, and other dual national detainees solely as Iranian citizens, prohibiting her from accessing the same consular support as Marchal. La Belle France has repeatedly called for its consular staff to be allowed to meet her.
The detention of Western nationals has increased since the US withdrew from the Iran nuclear deal in May 2018, heightening of US-Iran tensions.
While La Belle France has played a mediatory role between Tehran and Washington, fears of Iranian retaliation after Iranian General Qasem Soleimani was killed in a US Arclight airstrike
 ...KABOOM! ...
has seen French President Emmanuel Macron issue stern words of warning to Tehran.
The further spike in tensions has deepened fears that the dozen or so Western nationals currently held in Iranian detention could be in even graver danger.
Iranian authorities have also stepped up their detention of domestic activists, journalists and researchers. Some have been sentenced in trials whose fairness has been questioned. Several thousands of Iranians were arbitrarily detained for involvement in November's fuel price hike-induced protests, many of whom have been subject to ill-treatment by Iranian authorities, according to national and international human rights
...which often include carefully measured allowances of freedom at the convenience of the state...
groups.
In protest of the conditions of her detention, Adelkhah began a hunger strike on December 24, alongside Australian cellmate Kylie Moore-Gilbert - a University of Melbourne academic researcher detained since September 2018, trialed, and sentenced to ten years in prison.
Announcing their strike in an open letter, the two said they had been "subjected to psychological torture and numerous violations of our basic human rights."
"We will strike on behalf of all academics and researchers across Iran and the Middle East, who like us have been unjustly imprisoned on trumped-up charges and simply doing their job as researchers," the December 24 letter read.
In a symbolically significant move, La Belle France summoned Iran's ambassador to the country in December, to demand Adelkhah and Marchal be "freed with without delay."
Tehran has so far refused French appeals for Adelkhah's release, calling them "interference in its internal affairs." Both French prisoners' bid to be released on bail was rejected, and their case will go before the Revolutionary Court, AFP reported Iranian media as saying in December.
A silent gathering organised by a Sciences-Po support committee was held for the two academics in Gay Paree later on Tuesday.
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