Iran’s judiciary said on Tuesday that a five-year jail sentence for French-Iranian academic Fariba Adelkhah had been upheld, according to semi-official news agency ISNA, reports FRANCE 24.
Adelkhah’s sentence, passed in May over “security charges including conspiring against national security”, was upheld by the appeals court and “she is going to serve five years” including time served since her arrest, judiciary spokesman Gholamhossein Esmaili told a televised news conference.
A research director at Sciences Po university in Paris, Adelkhah was arrested in June last year and has been in custody ever since.
She is a dual French-Iranian citizen, a status Iran does not recognise.
Her French colleague and partner Roland Marchal, who was detained around the same time while visiting her in Tehran, was freed in March in an apparent prisoner swap.