Overview
- The French national detained in Iran since 2022 spoke briefly with her mother on 13 September, with the call limited to a few minutes under heavy surveillance.
- Her support committee reports she is exhausted, deprived of basic resources, separated from her partner Jacques Paris, and subjected to constant psychological pressure.
- Pressed by her captors, she could not disclose her location, and Iranian authorities continue to keep her place of detention secret.
- Kohler and Paris were arrested in May 2022 on accusations including espionage for Mossad and conspiracy, with transfers after June strikes on Evin prison obscuring their current whereabouts.
- Iran’s foreign minister says an exchange involving French prisoners and an Iranian woman held in France is close to completion, while France’s minister declined to comment and 19-year-old Franco-German Lennart Monterlos also remains detained.