The family of Cécile Kohler, a French teacher held in Iran for 300 days, spoke to her for the second time since her arrest last May, during a phone call, her support committee announced on Friday. “Cécile was only allowed two short calls with her family in ten months, under surveillance, during which she was unable to express herself freely,” her support committee said in a statement.

After a first video contact in December, “the second and last call, during which she was able to exchange a few words with her parents, dates from February 22. Information about his conditions of detention remains unclear,” the committee said. The fellow prisoners of this 38-year-old teacher and trade unionist detained in Evin prison (north), “change regularly”, Cécile “is locked in a narrow cell” and “can only go out into the prison courtyard three times a day. week,” the committee continues.

“She has only had one book to occupy in 10 months” and “we can’t send her any mail”, still worry the members of the committee who say they are “alarmed about her state of health. health in the face of such social and material isolation for 300 days now.” “No information on a possible trial has been communicated to us”, adds the committee, which calls for “his release as soon as possible”. A support weekend, on March 11 and 12, will be organized in Soultz (Haut-Rhin), the teacher’s “home town”, with a rally on Saturday and concerts the next day.

Cécile Kohler and her companion Jacques Paris were arrested while they were sightseeing in Iran. Tehran accuses them of being spies. Officially, six French people remain detained in Iran. In addition to Cécile Kohler and Jacques Paris, Bernard Phelan, Franco-Irish with fragile health, has been detained since October 1. A 35-year-old consultant, Louis Arnaud, was arrested on September 28. Another Frenchman is detained but his identity has never been made public.

Finally, Benjamin Brière, 38, detained since May 2020 for espionage, was acquitted in mid-February of all the charges against him but remains behind bars for the time being. Franco-Iranian researcher Fariba Adelkhah, arrested in June 2019 and then sentenced to five years in prison for undermining national security, was released on February 10.