{"id":7766,"date":"2009-12-13T10:29:15","date_gmt":"2009-12-13T18:29:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/?p=7766"},"modified":"2009-12-13T10:29:15","modified_gmt":"2009-12-13T18:29:15","slug":"iran-french-academic-in-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2009\/12\/iran-french-academic-in-court\/","title":{"rendered":"IRAN: French academic in court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>World University News<a href=\"http:\/\/www.universityworldnews.com\/article.php?story=20091211083107606\">: IRAN: French academic in court<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A report by France 24 said that Clotilde Reiss, a 24-year-old French academic, appeared before an Iranian Revolutionary Court for a second time on 17 November to face charges of &#8220;collecting information and provoking rioters&#8221; in the turbulent aftermath of the presidential elections in June.<\/p>\n<p>Reiss was arrested at an airport in Tehran on 1 July, having allegedly taken pictures of the protests that followed the election on her mobile phone and emailed them to friends. She initially appeared in court on 6 August, as part of a televised mass trial of those accused of fomenting unrest. <\/p>\n<p>She was granted bail and released from Insein Prison on 16 August in the care of the French Embassy in Tehran, on the condition that she remained there to await a verdict. No decision was reached at the latest court session and French officials say they do not rule out the prospect of Reiss having to return to court in the near future. <\/p>\n<p>At the time of her detention, Reiss was coming to the end of a six month research and teaching post at a university in Isfahan, central Iran.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World University News: IRAN: French academic in court A report by France 24 said that Clotilde Reiss, a 24-year-old French academic, appeared before an Iranian Revolutionary Court for a second time on 17 November to face charges of &#8220;collecting information &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2009\/12\/iran-french-academic-in-court\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[554],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic-freedom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7766"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7767,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7766\/revisions\/7767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}