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In Iran trial, French lecturer offers apology
Sat, 08 Aug 2009 14:50:01 GMT
A female French lecturer on trial charged with ‘acting
against Iran's national security' following the disputed
presidential election has reportedly asked for clemency.
“I should not have taken part in illegal protests (that
eri.pted in Iran following the June 12 vote)... I regret
(my activities),” Clotilde Reiss, the 24-year-old
Frenchwoman, said in the court on Saturday.
The mass trial against those charged over the violence
that followed the disputed re-election of Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad resumed on Saturday.
Reiss who turned 24 in Tehran's Evin prison on July 31
clotilde Reiss told the court that she had written about Iran's nuclear
power program as well as the post-vote developments
for the French embassy, the official Islamic Republic News Agency reported.
“I apologize to the Iranian nation and the court and hope they will pardon me,” she was quoted as saying.
A recent master's graduate, Reiss was working in Iran as a lecturer for the Isfahan Technical University. She
was detained near Tehran on July 1 at the Imam Khomeini International Airport (IKIA) as she tried to fly home.
“Following the closure of the Isfahan Technical University in the aftermath of the post-poll events, I was planning
to leave Iran, but I took part in rallies of June 15 and 17 in Tehran and took photographs and film,” the academic
told the court, Fars News Agency reported.
“I did this out of curiosity and to be aware of the political situation. I wanted to know of what was happening,”
she said. “I was interested in obtaining information about rallies of students in Iran. It was my own decision. No
one had asked me to do anything.”
Reiss confessed that she sent e-mails to her French friends and relatives and added, “I have written a one-page
report and submitted it to an official at the cultural department of the French embassy who was not a diplomat.”
The arrest of the French national came amidst turmoil in Iran where hundreds of thousands of people took to the
streets in protest at the conduct and result of the 10th presidential election that named Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
as the official victor with nearly two-thirds of the June 12 votes.
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SABAWA
Tue, 11 Aug 2009 09:27:54 GMT
Western powers should accuse Israel of Palestine houses demolitions not Iran on illegal rioters.
SABAWA
Tue, 11 Aug 2009 09:17:21 GMT
Sheltering rioters by French Embassy in an evidence of Western Powers hand in the protest to
disintegrate lran.The Iran authorities should deal decively with anybody found guilty among the rioters
inorder to protect Iran constitution.
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