His ordeal came to an end on the 20th of march. After nine months of imprisonment at the hands of the Guardians of the revolution, the ideological army of the islamic Republic, the French Roland Marchal, a researcher at the Centre de recherches internationales (Ceri) of Sciences Po, has finally regained freedom.

This expert on Africa, who had traveled to Iran on June 5 to visit his colleague and friend Fariba Adelkhah, was accused by the iranian judiciary of ” collusion to threaten national security “. He was released on New Year’s day persia, following an exchange retent…