He also received an additional eight months in detention for “propaganda”. He had been arrested while taking pictures with a drone in a natural park, in “prohibited areas” according to the authorities.
His relatives hoped “the end of this calvary”. But Benjamin Brière, a 36-year-old Frenchman detained since May 2020 in Iran, was sentenced to eight years in prison for “spying”, and eight additional months for “propaganda”, by a revolutionary court, announced his French lawyer, Philippe Valent, Tuesday, January 25. The latter denounces “a charade of trial”.
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