Nazak Afshar () is a French-Iranian woman currently imprisoned in
Iran. Iranian authorities arrested Afshar in March 2016 upon her arrival in the country to visit her critically ill mother. Afshar, who formerly worked at the French embassy in Tehran, "had previously been arrested in 2009 on charges of spying and of acting against Iran's national security." Due to the intervention of the French government at that time, she was freed and left the country that year.
In April 2016, the Iranian judiciary reportedly sentenced her to six years in prison.
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List of foreign nationals detained in Iran
Since the Iran hostage crisis, the Islamic Republic of Iran has engaged in a pattern of detaining foreign nationals for extended periods. Dual nationals of Iran and another country are particularly vulnerable to arbitrary detention because the int ...
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Clotilde Reiss
Clotilde Reiss (born 31 July 1985) is a French student accused of being an agent of a French intelligence agency. Her arrest in Iran on espionage charges on 1 July 2009 generated considerable diplomatic controversy. She holds a master's degree f ...
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Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Iranian emigrants to France
French people imprisoned in Iran
Foreign nationals detained in Iran
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