Why Fariba Adelkhah's fight is everyone's fight

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Maruf Hassan
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Why Fariba Adelkhah's fight is everyone's fight

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We learn with joy of the release from prison of researcher Fariba Adelkhah , who was detained in Iran. Sentenced to five years in prison in May 2020 for undermining national security, she was granted a "temporary release" in October 2020, before being imprisoned again in January 2022. On this occasion, we invite you to read this article that his colleague Béatrice Hibou had devoted to him a year after his arrest. June 5, 2019 – June 5, 2020: Fariba Adelkhah has been detained in Iran for a year, at the notorious Evin prison, for doing nothing but her work as a researcher. On December 24, together with Kylie Moore-Gilbert , her Anglo-Australian colleague also detained, she had started a hunger strike which had lasted 49 days to denounce their treatment but also and above all that of all the intellectuals detained in Iran. and in the countries of the region for only doing their job. After her trial, repeatedly postponed, which was finally held on April 19, she refused to give up her research and her comings and goings between Iran and France, as her jailers urged her to do. then promising him parole, an ankle bracelet.

For Fariba, accepting these conditions would have meant accepting the order of the Revolutionary Guards, thus accepting to see research criminalized; but also accepting to see endangered all the people with whom she worked, particularly in Iran and in Afghanistan. Following her refusal, she was sentenced on May 16, 2020 to six years in prison . Roland Marchal, his colleague and friend who had also been arrested on June 5, 2019 when he came to spend a few days with her, never went before a judge. After nine and a half months of phone number list detention in Evin, he was released on March 20, 2020 during an exchange with an Iranian engineer, close to the Revolutionary Guards, who had been arrested in France on a US arrest warrant and deemed extraditable. by the French courts.

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A scientific prisoner Fariba is an anthropologist at Sciences Po . For thirty years, she has been bringing back to the field the transformations of Iranian society, but also of Afghan society. Her works, a non-exhaustive list of which can be found on the CERI website, are authoritative by their depth, by her subtle knowledge of her country of origin which she has never ceased to frequent, constantly carrying out fieldwork and more or less long stays, and by the original look she has on everything she works on: women and their place in the public space ; the profound transformations of society behind the impression of conservatism ; the relationship between religion and politics ; the formation of the State through its borders and its relations with its neighbors and more broadly internationally; war as a way of life ... It is in this sense that Fariba is a scientific prisoner: she is imprisoned because she wrote, because she continued, against all odds, to do research, because she always thought that she had nothing to hide, that it was necessary to debate, discuss, confront ideas, however different they might be from those of the regime or the majority of the population, here or there.
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