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| French teacher freed from Iran, flying home |
| 2010-05-17 |
| [Al Arabiya Latest] French teacher Clotilde Reiss is being flown back to France on Sunday after the end of her trial in Iran on spying charges, President Nicolas Sarkozy's office said. Her lawyer, Mohammad Ali Mahdavi Sabet, said on Saturday that a court had issued a ruling allowing her to leave Iran. Mahdavi Sabet said Reiss had been sentenced to "pay a fine of $285,000 dollars (€230,000)," for her crimes, adding that he had paid the money on Saturday and had not lodged an appeal. Reiss, who had been out of jail on bail and staying at the French embassy, was accused of taking part in a Western plot to destabilize the Iranian government after the June 12 vote in which President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was re-elected. Her case raised tensions between France and Iran, already at odds over Tehran's nuclear program. No immediate comment was available from Iranian officials on the end of Reiss's trial. Reiss was arrested in Tehran in July when preparing to leave the Islamic Republic after working at the University of Isfahan for five months. She was among thousands of people detained over widespread post-election unrest. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 They still holding onto those 3 liberal idiot students? Were Bush in office, they;d have a hostage countdown going, and all kinds of crying about "do somethign to free our children". But its Obama letting them rot, so in the eyes of the left and prone press, no big deal. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2010-05-17 11:32 |