Toulouse: an Iranian woman who fled the regime imprisoned then threatened with expulsion
The situation of Iranian women, oppressed by the regime of their country which imposes a strict dress code on them and deprived of their freedoms, has moved the whole world. In France, following the death of Mahsa Aminicelebrities and even politicians have rebelled against the repression won by the country’s religious leaders on its youth.
However, in Toulouse, French justice pronounced the obligation to leave the territory for Farideh, 38, who had chosen to flee Iran in November 2022.
Detained while fleeing to England
The refugee, writes 20 minutes, had transited from Italy, then landed in Chambéry. She planned to reach London, where her fiancé was waiting for her, but she would have been arrested at the exit of the device by the police. The national daily specifies that she would have spent 48 hours in the Cornebarrieu detention center because she was in an irregular situation.
Three days later, Wednesday January 18, 2023, Farideh would have compared to the Toulouse court to defend his case. “I prefer to die here than to go back to Iran”, would have been attributed to the judge of freedoms and the pending at his hearing, with the help of a translator in Persian.
According to his lawyer quoted by 20 minutesMe Alexandre Mazeas, the prefecture of Savoy, in “less than forty-eight hours”, would have seized the Iranian consulate in Paris “to obtain a pass” in order to “put her on a plane and send her back”.
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Second Iranian refugee arrested
According to France Blue Occitania, this is the second time in three months that an Iranian woman has been locked up in the Cornebarrieu administrative detention center. Her defense, writes the regional newspaper, exposed the dangers that await Farideh if she were returned to her country of origin: “She belongs to the movement for freedom in Iran. She risks, if she returns there, incarceration, women who were raped, tortured in prison”.
In Iran, the defendant marched through the streets of Tehran for the rights of her fellow citizens, she says, alongside her brother, currently detained by the police, but also her sister who would have been released. .
Furthermore, added 20 minutes, Farideh is also a survivor of domestic violence: “She was married and had two children with her husband. He beat her, one day he broke her nose, so she decided to run away and file a complaint.” But, she would have explained at the bar, “the complaint was stifled by her husband” and the reguiée would have “lost custody of her children”. She wouldn’t have seen them for five years.
Farideh ordered to leave France
Late Wednesday afternoon, the judge of freedoms and pronounced the release of the Iranian, but Farideh is still subject to an obligation to leave French territory, on which the administrative court will have to rule in early March 2023, after an appeal by his lawyers relates 20 minutes.
For Alain Cwiklinski, member of the association Le Cercle des neighbors of the Cornebarrieu detention center, which is committed against the confinement of foreigners without residence permits or papers in order, “the Minister of the Interior should have issued Orders to prefects for Iranian women to be properly taken care of, even if they do not have a passport.” The activist expresses his “shame” of France in the face of this situation.
The association must be responsible for finding him temporary accommodation.