Silencing pro-Palestine voices: Iranian academic still in jail for social media posts
Qassem Hassan
Press TV, Paris
An Iranian citizen and university lecturer in France, 35-year-old Mahdieh Esfandiari has been held in a detention facility in the suburbs of Paris.
She was arrested after publishing messages on a Telegram channel in condemnation of Israel’s ongoing genocide in the besieged Gaza Strip. A judicial decision is expected in the coming days but France’s move has put a question mark on the country’s so-called freedom of expression. We have more in this report from Paris.
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