Iran releases French researcher on bail

Source: AFP

1 hr 43 mins ago

PARIS (AFP) – Iranian authorities released a young French academic who was accused of spying on bail on Sunday, the French presidency announced, after she spent six weeks in Tehran's notorious Evin jail.

University teaching assistant Clotilde Reiss, 24, was arrested in Tehran on July 1 after taking part in post-election street protests and was one of more than 100 defendants at a televised mass trial earlier this month.

She will now have to stay at the French embassy in Tehran while she awaits the verdict in her trial, which was heard on August 8.

Her father Remi Reiss said the young academic was "very happy" after being freed and seemed well.

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