UK – Iran Focus News, January 18, 2025
Louis Arnaud, a French citizen who was released from Iran’s Evin Prison last June after two years of detention, spoke about his arrest, imprisonment, and release in his first media interview since his release.
He was arrested during the nationwide protests in 2022 and sentenced to five years in prison by the regime’s judiciary on security-related charges.
Louis Arnaud, who was held in solitary confinement for an extended period, told France 24 television that the authorities do everything to destroy the personality, dignity, and human identity of the detainee.
According to Louis Arnaud, the Iranian regime has taken seven French citizens hostage in recent years, three of whom remain imprisoned in Iran.
Expressing regret over the continued detention of these French citizens, he noted that several other foreign hostages, including Ahmadreza Djalali, an Iranian-Swedish citizen sentenced to death, are also imprisoned by the Iranian regime.
