France plans to take Iran to international court over citizen detentions

The head of French diplomacy announced Wednesday, April 2, that the state was going to file a complaint with the International Court of Justice, on behalf of its nationals imprisoned in Iran. Cécile Kohler and his companion Jacques Paris were arrested almost three years ago on a tourist trip. Accused "of espionage", they are detained in isolation in Tehran.

France plans to take Iran to international court over citizen detentions

PARIS - Two French citizens held in Iran for almost three years have not had consular services for more than a year prompting Paris to prepare a complaint at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), France's foreign ministry said on Thursday. Read more at straitstimes.com.

By Abdul Rahman Korki (Mahabadi)* With the approaching end of the dictatorial Velayat-e Faqih regime, which is crumbling, fear has spread among the ruling dictatorship in Iran and among the supporters of the appeasement policy of this regime in the West, in the face of the growing discontent and anger of the Iranian people against the existing tyranny.

France mulls dragging Iran to international court over citizen detentions

The French foreign ministry said on Thursday that it is planning to take Iran to the International Court of Justice, ICJ, over two French citizens held in Iran for almost three years without consular services. Media Talk Africa reports that Cecile Kohler and her partner Jacques Paris have been held since May 2022. Iranian state [...] Source

French diplomatic chief Jean-Noël Barrot announced on Wednesday that France would file a complaint against Iran before the ICJ for "infringement of the right to consular protection" of the two detainees, which Paris calls "state hostages".

“We are going to intensify pressure on the Iranian regime” to obtain the release of Cécile Kohler and Jacques Paris, who were arrested more than a thousand days ago,” said the French Foreign Minister, Jean-Noël Barrot, at an audience before the National Assembly. Jean-Noël Barrot also announced “additional” European sanctions against those responsible for Iran's hostage-taking policy “in the coming days”. The two French citizens, a teacher and h…