{"id":6310,"date":"2026-04-15T08:05:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T08:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/6310\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T08:05:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T08:05:13","slug":"iranian-woman-convicted-in-france-for-terrorism-glorification-returns-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/6310\/","title":{"rendered":"Iranian woman convicted in France for \u201cterrorism glorification\u201d returns home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>15 April 2026 11:40<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Iranian national Mahdieh Esfandiari, who was convicted in France for \u201cglorifying terrorism,\u201d has returned to Iran days after two French citizens, C\u00e9cile Kohler and Jacques Paris, previously held in Tehran, arrived in Paris.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The 39-year-old was sentenced by a French court in February to one year in prison with time served and a lifetime ban from entering France,<a style=\"color: rgb(53, 152, 219);\" href=\"https:\/\/caliber.az\/en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"> Caliber.Az<\/a> reports, citing<a style=\"color: rgb(53, 152, 219);\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bfmtv.com\/international\/moyen-orient\/iran\/condamnee-en-france-pour-apologie-du-terrorisme-l-iranienne-mahdieh-esfandiari-est-rentree-en-iran_AN-202604150179.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"> French media<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">She had also been under house arrest pending her return.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Iranian state television reported that Esfandiari, described by Iranian media as a \u201cpro-Palestinian rights activist,\u201d left France on April 15.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">French authorities accused her of social media posts that, in the court\u2019s view, justified the Hamas attack of October 7, 2023, and incited violence.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Her case is currently under appeal, which temporarily suspended parts of the sentence, including the deportation order.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><a style=\"color: rgb(53, 152, 219);\" href=\"https:\/\/caliber.az\/post\/makron-arestovannye-iranom-francuzy-svobodny-i-vozvrashayutsya-na-rodinu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">C\u00e9cile Kohler and Jacques Paris<\/a> have been held in Iran for several years.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">French officials, however, say there was no formal prisoner exchange, describing the developments as parallel diplomatic processes.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">By Bakhtiyar Abbasov<\/p>\n<p>Caliber.Az<\/p>\n<p>Read more about the key topics in this news story.<\/p>\n<p>Views: 40<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"15 April 2026 11:40 Iranian national Mahdieh Esfandiari, who was convicted in France for \u201cglorifying terrorism,\u201d has returned&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6311,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3975,3657,3656,5,3976,3979,1277,3978,3977,3974],"class_list":{"0":"post-6310","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-analysis-of-azerbaijan","9":"tag-azerbaijan","10":"tag-baku","11":"tag-france","12":"tag-important-news-of-azerbaijan","13":"tag-international-experts","14":"tag-interviews","15":"tag-interviews-with-azerbaijani-analysts","16":"tag-news-from-baku","17":"tag-news-of-azerbaijan"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6310\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}