Overview

• Cécile Kohler and Jacques Paris have been missing since June 23 when Israeli forces struck Tehran’s Evin prison where they were held on espionage charges since May 2022.
• Iran’s judiciary announced it transferred unspecified detainees from Evin to other prisons in Tehran province without identifying those moved.
• The French government says it received assurances that neither Kohler nor Paris was harmed in the strike but their families question the credibility of those claims.
• Lawyers for the two detainees have lodged new applications in French courts and reinforced their May complaint at the International Court of Justice under a forced disappearance framework.
• Families are demanding immediate proof of life and urgent exfiltration plans as they recall the harsh conditions and documented psychological abuse suffered by the couple.