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Reiss ‘e-mailed' father on Iran protests
Wed, l2Aug 2009 10:13:30 CMI
The father of a Frenchwoman detained in Iran over
post-election uirest says he received e-mails from his
daughter containing information on street protests.
French lecturer Clotilde Reiss, who Used to teach at
Isfahan University of Technology, was put on trial on
August 8, along with some others arrested after the
election.
In a court address, Reiss, who turned 24 while in
custody, said that she had written to the French
embassy and about 50 friends or members of her
family about Iran's nuclear program as well as the
country's post-election developments.
“My father works for the French Atomic Energy
Commission. I did an internship there and for that I
wrote a report on Iran's policy on nuclear energy,” she said, according to an ISNA report.
She also said that she regretted taking part in the ‘illegal protests' and asked ‘the Iranian nation and the court to
pardon her.
In a recent interview with France-2 television channel, her father, however, said that she had oily sent him an
e-mail, not a formal ‘report.' He said that the French Embassy was copied in on the e-mail.
“ [ It] was about what she was living tlto u gh, but in the sense of ‘rest assured ... I am doing fine,” Remi Reiss
said, adding that he had ‘hope' that she would be freed soon.
According to reports posted on French press, officials working in so called ‘sensitive positions' must keep
intelligence authorities informed if they or their family members make contact with or visit certain countries such
as Iran, Libya, or Iraq.
Meanwhile, Paris has urged Iran to free Reiss and Nazak Afshar, a French Embassy staff member who is also
being prosecuted in a televised mass trial.
On August 10, the French president's office said that Nicolas Sarkozy, who is on vacation in southern France,
was trying to secure Reiss's release.
The French Foreign Ministry has described the release of Reiss and Afshar as its ‘very first priority'.
The president is following Reiss' case ‘extremely attentively' and is ‘multiplying his contacts among all those' who
could help secure her release, said one of Sarkozy's aides, without releasing any specific names or details.
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Mahdi
Wed, 12 Aug 2009 13:59:35 CMI
There is no doubt that she was doing something illegal. As someone said here, it is weird someone copy
embassy her e-mails when they are not working for them or has nothing to do with them. she was p to
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