Fariba Adelkhah (born 25 April 1959) is a French-Iranian

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and academic at

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who is currently detained in

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Early life and career

Born in

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, Adelkhah studied in

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, first at Université Strasbourg II and then at the

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. In 1990, she obtained a "very honourable" mention for her

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thesis on women in Iran, "an anthropological approach of post-revolutionary Iran: the case of Islamic women" (''Une approche anthropologique de l'Iran post-révolutionnaire. Le cas des femmes islamiques''), with Jean-Pierre Digard as her advisor. Since 2004, she has been a Research Director at the

Fondation nationale des sciences politiques , motto_lang = fr , mottoeng = Roots of the Future , type = Public research university''Grande école'' , established = , founder = Émile Boutmy , accreditation ...

. As a researcher at the Centre for International Research of Paris Institute of Political Studies (Sciences Po), she authored a number of publications on

and

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. She is a member of the scientific council of the periodical ''

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'' and of ''Revue des mondes musulmans et de la Méditerranée''.

Imprisonment in Iran

On 14 July 2019,

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-language media from outside of Iran reported that she had been arrested in Iran. Her arrest would date back to 7 June, when she last connected to her

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account. The Iranian Human Rights website ''

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'' stated that she had been arrested by the

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and was being detained at Evin Prison. French authorities stated that Adelkhah was being denied access to consular assistance, and are demanding access to their citizen. In June 2019, Adelkhah's Sciences Po colleague Roland Marchal was also arrested in Iran when he came to visit her. On 7 February 2020, their lawyer said the two had petitioned prison authorities to allow them to get married. Marchal and Adelkhah were reportedly to go on trial on 3 March 2020 but it was postponed due to

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. Marchal was released on 20 March 2020 as part of a prisoner swap, but no verdict was reached on the case of Adelkhah. On 16 May 2020, the 15th Chamber of the Tehran Court sentenced Adelkhah to five years' imprisonment for conspiring against national security, and one year for propaganda against the state. During her trial, she was represented by Iranian lawyer Saeid Dehghan. Although Adelkhah is French-Iranian, Iran does not recognise this dual citizenship, and so continues to deny her access to French consular services. Sciences Po is in contact with the French

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to campaign and raise awareness for Adelkhah's release. On 12 January 2022, Adelkhah's Paris-based support group, announced that her house arrest was over and she had been re-imprisoned at Evin. She was released from Evin prison again on 10 February 2023.

Works

* ''Ramadan et politique'' Paris : CNRS éditions, 2000. , * ''Guerre et terre en Afghanistan'' Aix-en-Provence PUP, Presses Univ. de Provence 2013. , *''Dubai, cité globale'' Paris : CNRS, 2001. , * ''Les mille et une frontières de l'Iran: Quand les voyages forment la nation'' * ''El estado del mundo'' * ''Un péril islamiste?'' (Interventions) (French Edition) * ''The Moral Economy of the Madrasa: Islam and Education Today'' (New Horizons in Islamic Studies) * ''Thermidor en Iran'' (Espace international) (French Edition) Bruxelles: Complexe, 1993. , * ''Etre moderne en Iran'' (Recherches internationales) (French Edition) Paris : Karthala, 1998. , *''La révolution sous le voile: Femmes islamiques d'Iran'' * ''Voyages du développement : émigration, commerce, exil'', Paris : Éd. Karthala, 2007. , * ''Les mosquées : espaces, institutions et pratiques'', Aix-en-Provence : Presses Universitaires de Provence, 2009. ,

Works in English

* ''Being Modern in Iran'' (The CERI Series in Comparative Politics and International Studies) London : Hurst & Company, 2000. , * ''The Thousand and One Borders of Iran: Travel and Identity'' (Iranian Studies) London: Routledge, 2015. , * ''The Moral Economy of the Madrasa'' (New Horizons in Islamic Studies: Second Series) London ; New York : Routledge, 2011. ,

References

External links

* at www.sciencespo.fr
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