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          Germany summons Iran's envoy over detainees
          Thu, 13 Aug 2009 05:51:48 CMI
          Along with some other European courtries, Germany
          has summoned Iran's envoy to protest Tehran's
          detention of those accused of involvement in
          post-election uirest.
          A spokesman for German Foreign Minister Frank-
          Walter Steinmeier said Wednesday that the Iranian
          ambassador was called to the ministry to hear
          Germany's concern over the imprisonment of
          protesters.
          ‘In agreement with our European partners, we
          summoned the Iranian ambassador to once again
          express our concern and ... to convey our expectation
          that the people jailed during trials should be released
          immediately.”
          Over the past two weeks, Iran has put on trial those allegedly irwolved in the violence sparked in the aftermath of
          the 10th presidential election, which saw incumbent Mahmoud Ahmadinejad win for a second term in office.
          Among the defendants in the dock are well-known political figures, activists, local staff working for British and
          French Embassies in Iran as well as a female French academic, Clotilde Reiss.
          The case of Reiss was also discussed in the meeting with the Irarian envoy, the spokesman for the German
          foreign ministry said.
          Reiss, who was working in Iran as a lecturer in the Isfahan Technical Uriversity, was detained on July 1 in the
          course of post-election unrest that ensued Iran's election.
          During her court address on July 8, she said that she had taken part in ‘illegal protests' and had written to the
          French embassy and about 50 friends or members of her family about the couitry's post-election developments.
          An unnamed government source in Iran told Press TV on Wednesday that the French Embassy has taken a step
          to free the detained French national.
          ‘The French Embassy in Tehran has conveyed an official letter to Iran's Foreign Ministry accepting to provide bail
          and written guarantees asking for the release of Miss Clotilde Reiss.”
          Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt said on Tuesday that his country had summoned the Iranian ambassador to
          protest the trial of those detained in post-election protests.
          On Monday, Firland also called the Iranian envoy to the foreign ministry to protest the recent mass trials.
          Tehran accuses Western countries -- the US and Britain in particular -- for instigating the post-election protests in
          Iran, calling on them to adopt a policy of non-interference towards the country.
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