Last hearing Clotilde Reiss Iran



The young woman, aged 24, is called Wednesday for a rehearing, the last ", as Foreign Minister.

Bernard Kouchner reiterated that the young French woman detained in Tehran would not be exchanged against an Iranian prison for murder in France, Ali Vakili Rad.

Paris rejected an Iranian proposal to exchange Clotilde Reiss, convened Wednesday by the court for a "final" hearing cons Ali Vakili Rad, an Iranian prison in France, said Monday the head of the French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner.

"What does he want?" It (the Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, editor's note) wants us to share Clotilde Reiss cons Ali Vakili Rad, ie the murderer of Shapur Bakhtiar. It is not issue, "said the minister at the European American press club in Paris. "Even if we wished, we could not do," he added, referring to the independence of justice in France.

Ali Vakili Rad was sentenced in 1994 in France to life imprisonment, with a safety period of 18 years for murder in 1991 of former Iranian Prime Minister, Shapur Bakhtiar.

"It depends on the French leaders'

Ahmadinejad told AFP Friday that Iran was willing to release Clotilde Reiss, tried for his participation in the protest post-election, but that this depended on the attitude "of French leaders.

"If they just correct their behavior and act in a balanced manner, it will be resolved. They themselves know what to do," Ahmadinejd said Friday, without specifying what he meant. In the past, the Iranian president had mentioned the case of Iranians detained in France, in response to a question about the release of Clotilde Reiss.

The young woman, aged 24, is called Wednesday for a rehearing, the last, "said Kouchner. "I support it will go," he added. It was November 17 appeared before the Revolutionary Court in Tehran before returning to the Embassy of France in Tehran where she is confined since mid-August pending his trial.

Clotilde Reiss, lecturer of French at the University of Isfahan (central), was arrested July 1 for having participated in protests against the controversial re-election of Ahmadinejad June 12 She was released on bail August 16, provided they remain at the embassy. The French authorities have always maintained that Clotilde Reiss was innocent and no charges could be brought against her.