The proposed swap includes Mahdieh Esfandiari, a 39-year-old Iranian woman who has been detained in a detention facility outside Paris since February 28th.
She was detained for a month and a half in one of France’s most infamous prisons, during which the French police and the judiciary refused family contact for two weeks.
“We’ve carried out a lot of activities, and now we can say that we’ve reached a point where the exchanges between French prisoners in Iran are approaching the final stage,” Aragucci said in a television interview Thursday night.
Iran repeatedly called for her release, claiming she was in unfair detention.
According to friends and family of Esfandiari, her home was thoroughly searched by security guards on February 28th, turning the incident into something creepy and similar to the temptation.
In two days after her arrest, no information has been revealed about her whereabouts. After permanent follow-up by her friends and family, they learn that she is in police custody.
Esfandiari was later transferred to Fresins’ prison, 470 kilometres away, near the capital of Paris.
This considerable distance made it extremely difficult for her family and friends to pursue her lawsuit or provide support in any form.
She happens to be a linguist who received a French degree from Lumiere University and has lived in the French city of Lyon for the past eight years. She works as a professor, translator and interpreter at Lumiere University.
Additionally, French authorities have refused for a month to provide details to Iranian Foreign Ministry, which intervened in the family’s request.
Meanwhile, Iranian authorities arrested two French citizens, Cecil Kohler, and 40-year-old Cecil Kohler and Jacques Paris in the 70s on May 7, 2022. They were charged with Israeli spying.
MNA