Overview
- At France’s National Assembly on Tuesday, Cécile Kohler and Jacques Paris took down the support portraits that hung on the gates during their captivity, calling the gesture a sign they are free.
- In a France 2 interview on Monday, the pair described months in Evin Prison under constant light with bare floors, no bed or toothbrush, strict isolation, and repeated threats of hanging.
- They were arrested on May 7, 2022, accused of espionage, freed from prison in November 2025 but kept under restrictions at the French embassy in Tehran, and finally flew home on April 8.
- They said interrogators coerced them into filmed “confessions” that Iranian state television later broadcast.
- French officials at the Assembly event repeated that Iran uses foreigners as state hostages and said consular efforts continue for others still held abroad.