An Iranian court has ordered a five-year jail sentence against a French national tried on national security charges and held in prison for over a year, his family announced on Wednesday.
The French foreign ministry swiftly denounced the sentence against Louis Arnaud, calling it “unacceptable.”
Arnaud, a banking consultant, was detained in Iran in September last year and has been held in Tehran’s Evin prison.
Arnaud was handed the sentence by a Revolutionary Court on charges of making propaganda against and seeking to harm the security of the Islamic republic, the family said in a statement.
The family said Arnaud was innocent of all charges and denounced the verdict as “an attack on human rights and individual freedoms”.
The statement described Arnaud as a “passionate traveller” who had long wanted to visit Iran.
“Unfortunately, his dream turned into a nightmare when he was unjustly…
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