Clotilde Reiss

Clotilde Reiss (2009)

Clotilde Reiss (born July 31, 1985 ) is a French doctoral student who was arrested in connection with the protests after the 2009 presidential elections in Iran .

The Iranian nanny of the family - her mother died when Clotilde Reiss was still little - raised Clotilde in Paris and taught her Persian from an early age . After graduating from high school, Reiss studied political science in Lille and received awards every year as an excellent student. Clotilde Reiss obtained a Masters in Political Science from Lille University with work on the Iranian education system and textbooks since the 1979 revolution . She was a French lecturer at Isfahan University in Iran and was working on a doctoral thesis on history and geography teaching in Iranian Schools.

On July 1, 2009, she was arrested at Tehran's Imam Khomeini Airport when she was traveling to Beirut to visit friends. On August 8, she appeared as one of the accused at a show trial of the alleged instigators of the protests against the result of the presidential elections . She was charged with posting photos of demonstrations in Isfahan on the Internet . During the trial, Clotilde Reiss is said to have admitted, according to the semi-state news agency Fars, to have given the cultural department of the French embassy a report on the demonstrations. On August 16, 2009, Clotilde Reiss was released from Iranian custody on bail of EUR 213,000 and awaited her sentence at the French embassy in Tehran. Reiss had also admitted that after an internship at the French Atomic Energy Agency, for which her father works, he wrote a brief report (APA). On May 16, 2010, however, Clotilde Reiss was allowed to leave Iran and travel to France.

Individual evidence

1. ^ French woman accused of rebel Focus online from August 10, 2009
2. ^ Prisoners of the Spiegel regime online from August 9, 2009
3. ^ First the torture, then the Spiegel online trial of August 8, 2009
4. ↑ Iran releases Clotilde Reiss on bail Spiegel online from August 16, 2009
5. ↑ Iran Report 9/2009  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 103 kB) böll.de  
6. ↑ Paris lets Iranian murderers leave the country. In: derStandard.at. May 18, 2010, accessed December 20, 2017 . 
7. ↑ After arrest in Iran Clotilde Reiss is back in France Spiegel online from May 16, 2010

Web links

• NZZ online: Second part of the Iranian mass process
• Clotilde Reiss, une amoureuse de l'Iran emprisonnée à Téhéran (French)
• Support blog for Clotilde Reiss (French)
• Petition for the release of Clotilde Reiss (French)