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Video about a french student jailed in Iran
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8204558.stm

First article concerning Clotilde Reiss via Le Figaro's Website http://www.lefigaro.fr/international/2010/01/29/01003-20100129ARTFIG00008-clotilde-reiss-attend-toujours-son-verdict-.php

Second article concerning Clotilde Reiss via Le Monde's Website [|Paris refuse d'échanger Clotilde Reiss]

Third article concerning Clotilde Reiss via l'Express' Website http://www.lexpress.fr/actualite/monde/proche-orient/la-francaise-clotilde-reiss-devant-la-justice-iranienne_779257.html

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//I) GLOSSARY, sample of useful vocabulary//
 * A protester (un protestataire), An anti-government protester (un protestataire anti-gouvernemental), A protestation (une protestation)
 * A demonstration (une manifestation)
 * A clash (un affrontement), A conflict (un conflit), An opposition (une rébellion), A revolution (une révolution)
 * A Civil War (une guerre civile)
 * The Iranian Authorities (les autorités iraniennes), An election (une élection), A president (un président)
 * The diplomacy (la diplomatie), A diplomat (un diplomate)
 * Embassy (Ambassade)
 * Propaganda (Propagande)
 * To be jailed for an act or for a period (être emprisonné pour un acte ou une période)
 * To be arrested by the police (être arrêté par la police)
 * An innocen t (un innocent), To claim innocence (clamer son innocence)
 * A trial (un procès), The Justice (la Justice), A court (un tribunal), A miscarriage of Justice (une erreur de Justice)
 * A law (une loi), A lawyer (un avocat), A verdict (un verdict)
 * To be judged (être jugé), To be judged on the facts (être jugé sur les faits), An appearance in the court (une comparution au tribunal)
 * To summon somebody to the court (convoquer quelqu'un au tribunal), To plead (plaider)
 * Liberation (libération), To release somebody (libérer quelqu'un), An acquittal (un acquittement)
 * To spy on (espionner), A spy (un espion)
 * To reject a suggestion (rejeter une proposition)
 * Protest movemen t (mouvement de protestation)
 * Revolutional Court (tribunal révolutionnaire)
 * Discharge (retour à la vie civile)
 * To sentence somebody to (condamner quelqu'un à)
 * Receive a life sentence (réclusion criminelle à perpétuité)
 * Expel measure (mesure d'expulsion)
 * Blackmai l (chantage), To use blackmail (faire du chantage)
 * On Bail/Probation/Parole (en liberté provisoire/surveillée/conditionnelle)
 * To appear before something (Comparaître devant qqchose)
 * Employee ( employée )
 * Defendants ( accusés )
 * Rioters ( émeutiers )
 * Involvement ( implication )
 * Attempt ( tentative )
 * Network ( réseau )

An english article about Clotilde Reiss via The Times' Website to get the exact vocabulary [|Court in Iran refuses to release French student Clotilde Reiss]

//II) BACKGROUND, some informations to understand this story//

// **ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN** // Capital City: TEHERAN

Language: PERSAN

Currency: RIAL

Inhabitants: 71 million of people

Superficy: 1 648 195 km square

Third largest oil world producer

Second exporter of OPEP (Organisation of the countries exporting oil)

President of the Islamic Republic of Iran: __[|Mahmoud Ahmadinejad]__ //(He was re-elected in July 2009 but, even if the election is democratical, the candidates are selected by the islamic powers)//

Internal Policy: TOTALITARIAN DICTATORSHIP

**
 * CLOTILDE REISS

Born in 1985 in FRANCE

Student at IEP of Lille (University of Political Sciences)

Degreed of Master 1 in Compared Policy in 2008 //(First trip in Iran to prepare her degree about the iranian education system)//

Student of Master 2 in Teaching of History and Geography and Reader at Ispahan University (IRAN) in 2009 //(Second trip in Iran, arrived in February 2009)//

Arrested by the police in July 2009

//(TEHRAN wants Ali Vakili Rad freed in exchange for Clotilde Reiss)//
 * CONFLICTS WITH IRAN **

In 1994, the 34 year-old Ali Vakili Rad is announced as one of the three murderers of Chapour Bakthiar, ex Iranian Prime Minister in exile in France.

//(Ex Prime Minister Chapour Bakthiar)//

In 2002, we learn that Iran has started a new program about nuclear energy to find the secret of massive attacks. But (as for the presence of nuclear bombs in Irak) this is part of the american informations that is still not proved. Iran says that it would be nuclear energy for civil use. In the name of SALT, and affraid by a dictatorial policy, the members of United Nations (UN) refuses and condemns this policy; though the 4th article of SALT said that a country can have nuclear energy for (and only for that) civil use.



//First article concerning Clotilde Reiss via Le Figaro's Website//

Clotilde Reiss is still waiting for her verdict
//The young woman remained locked up in the French Embassy of Teheran as she has not been judged yet.//

The verdict was normally scheduled for last Saturday. It has not yet be pronounced. Arrested on the first day of July, she is currently confined in the French Embassy, after one month and a half past in the jail of Evin, the young French student seems to find the time quite long.

Clotilde Reiss was summoned four times to appear before the revolutionary court of Teheran as the Iranian authorities accused her of taking pictures during the demonstrations and of sending an email to a French diplomat.

On the 16th of January after her last appearance, which should normally have been the last one, her lawyer Mohammad Ali Mahdavi Sabet stated that he was confident. “I pleaded in favour of her acquittal”, he confided to the Figaro magazine.

//Liberation of two Iranians expected//

Having a passion for Iran, the young 24 year-old woman was just about to leave the country, after a stay of five months in Isaphan, from the airport of Teheran when she was bothered by the authorities, at the time of the post-elections spike. But her case seems to not only depend on the Iranian justice.

It could be linked to the case of two Iranians held prisonners in France and whose their liberation is expected. The first prisoner**,** Ali Vakili Rad, jailed for the murder in 1991 of ex Prime Minister Chapour Bakhtiar is to attend a court hearing on 10 February of this year and at the end of his appearance in court, the magistrate might accept to release him. The United-States request the extradition of Madjid Kakavand the second Iranian. Arrested at the airport of Roissy on 20 March**,** this 36 year-old Iranian engineer is accused by Washington of buying thousands of electronic products from six American companies in order to deliver them to the Iranian Army, thus violating the American economic embargo on Iran. The public prosecutor's office of Paris should normally decide his case mid-February. The decision concerning his possible extradition will then fall to the French Prime Minister.

//Translation of the second article concerning Clotilde Reiss via Le Monde's Website//

Paris refuses to exchange Clotilde Reiss for an iranian jailed for murder in France
Paris rejects the iranian suggestion to exchange Clothilde Reiss (judged in Tehran) for Ali Vakili Rad (an iranian jailed in France for the murder, in 1991, of ex-Iranian-Prime-Minister Chapour Baktiar ), Bernard Kouchner, leader of the French diplomacy, said on Monday 21th December.

The leader of French diplomacy also declared that Clotilde Reiss (judged in Iran for her involvement in the post-election protest movement) was summoned to appear before the judge on Wednesday for "a new hearing, the last one". "I am in favour of her going" the minister declared. Clothilde Reiss appeared before the Revolution Court of Tehran before returning to the French embassy, where she is confined since the middle of August.

"Her only crime is to love Persian civilisation"

The Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmaninedjad had declared on Friday that Iran was willing to free Clotilde Reiss, but that it was conditional to the attitude of the French leaders. "If they correct their behaviour a little and act wisely,the case will be settled. They do know what to do" Mr. Ahmaninedjed stated on Friday, whitout clarifying what he was hinting at.

In the past, the Iranian President had already alluded to the cases of Iranians jailed in France, in answer to a question regarding the release of Clotilde Reiss.

In 1994, in France 50 year-old Ali Vakili Rad, was sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum recommendation of 18 years for the assassination of ex-PM Chapour Bakiar in 1991. He has just finished his minimum recommendation. On 14th August, his lawyer, Mr. Margulis Sorin, submitted a request for a release on parole accompanied with an expulsion measure.

French authorities have always claimed that the French student was innocent, and that no charges could be held against her. In an interview on air on television at the end of September, Nicolas Sarkozy rejected any ideas of exchange, which he described as "blackmail". "Do you think I am a man who would exchange Chapour Baktiar's murderer for a young French student whose only crime is to speak the language of Iran and to love Persian civilisation ?" he exclaimed.

//Translation of the third article concerning Clotilde Reiss via l'Express' Website//

**The French clotilde Reiss in front of the Iranian courts**
The 24 year-old student is held in an Irakian prison since the first of July. Téhéran accused her of taking part in anti-Ahmadinejad demonstrations. She has appeared on Saturday morning, at the same time as members of the opposition. The Frenchwoman **C**lotilde Reiss and a local employee of the French embassy, were among the defendants who appeared Saturday in Téhéran, when the trial of people prosecuted for questionning the reelection of President Ahmadinejad re-opened. " Clotilde Reiss is accused of gathering information and encouraging the rioters", the official agency, IRNA, stated. According to another agency, called FARS, Clotilde is tried for involvement in a "velvet revolution" attempt. She is also accused of being involved in an information network with the aim of creating a revolution and supporting a turmoil on a national level, the Fars adds. According to pictures taken by the Iranian agency, Fars,the young woman, who weared a jean, a dark coat and a scarf was sitting at the first row of the defendants, with a policewoman by her sides, The French Embassy have difficulty in seeing Clotilde Reiss. Mrs Reiss, teaching assistant at the university of Isaphan in central Iran, was arrested on the 1st July. The young woman, who turned 24 on the 31st July was initially accused of spying for taking pictures of demonstrations with her cell phone in Ispahan and for sending them to her French friend in Teheran. A diplomatic source claimed to be «　 surprised to learn that Mrs Reiss had to appear in court　**»**