{"id":327811,"date":"2025-01-17T23:02:42","date_gmt":"2025-01-17T22:02:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=327811"},"modified":"2025-01-17T23:02:42","modified_gmt":"2025-01-17T22:02:42","slug":"iran-news-french-hostage-exposes-brutal-reality-of-evin-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/human-rights\/iran-news-french-hostage-exposes-brutal-reality-of-evin-prison\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran News: French Hostage Exposes Brutal Reality of Evin Prison"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_327812\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-327812\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-327812\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Louis-Arnaud-a-French-banking-consultant-and-former-hostage-in-Iran.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"547\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Louis-Arnaud-a-French-banking-consultant-and-former-hostage-in-Iran.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Louis-Arnaud-a-French-banking-consultant-and-former-hostage-in-Iran-300x164.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Louis-Arnaud-a-French-banking-consultant-and-former-hostage-in-Iran-768x420.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Louis-Arnaud-a-French-banking-consultant-and-former-hostage-in-Iran-150x82.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Louis-Arnaud-a-French-banking-consultant-and-former-hostage-in-Iran-696x381.jpg 696w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-327812\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Louis Arnaud, a French banking consultant and former hostage in Iran, speaking to France 24 on January 16, 2025<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Louis Arnaud, a French banking consultant and former hostage in Iran, has shared harrowing details about his two-year imprisonment in Tehran&#8217;s infamous Evin Prison. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/video\/20250116-exclusive-former-hostage-louis-arnaud-shares-his-2-year-ordeal-in-iran-s-evin-prison\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Speaking to France 24<\/a>, Arnaud described his detention as a \u201cnever-ending nightmare\u201d and detailed systemic abuse, highlighting the Iranian regime\u2019s continued use of hostage diplomacy to exert pressure on the international community.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Arnaud was arrested in September 2022 during a leisure trip to Iran and sentenced to five years in prison on fabricated national security charges. He spent six months in solitary confinement in a cell he described as an 8-square-meter windowless space, constantly lit and monitored by surveillance cameras. \u201cYou don\u2019t know if it\u2019s day or night,\u201d Arnaud said. \u201cYou live, eat, and sleep on the floor under constant watch. The guards scream at you, more like barking than shouting.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The conditions were designed to break prisoners, according to Arnaud. \u201cThis is torture; let\u2019s call it what it is. The goal is to destroy your identity and humanity so that during interrogations, you confess to whatever they decide. These confessions may be signed or recorded, as was the case for other French hostages like Jacques and C\u00e9cile.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Arnaud described Evin Prison as a hub for human rights abuses, where both Iranian dissidents and foreign detainees endure physical and psychological torture. \u201cI saw prisoners with broken ribs, hands, and legs, some with strangulation marks on their necks,\u201d he revealed. \u201cThe sounds of cries and screams were constant. There is no easy day there. Every hour is a fight for survival that drains your strength.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Interview w\/ Louis Arnaud, jailed by Iranian regime for 2 yrs.<br \/>&quot;Everything is done so y&#39;re deprived of yr humanity.&quot;<br \/>He mentions conditions of Ward209, meeting prisoners w\/ 5-30 yrs prison &amp;recalls his time w\/ Mohsen Shekari, arrested after <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/IranProtests?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#IranProtests<\/a> &amp;later executed by regime <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FfjxIvPXhP\">pic.twitter.com\/FfjxIvPXhP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Friends of a Free Iran &#8211; EP (@FOFI_EP) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FOFI_EP\/status\/1880305872368464031?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 17, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">During his time in solitary confinement, Arnaud was allowed only three phone calls to his family and French officials, each closely monitored by prison authorities. Guards dictated what he could say, further exacerbating the psychological toll of his detention.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Arnaud is among at least seven French citizens taken hostage by the Iranian regime in recent years, three of whom remain imprisoned. His testimony sheds light on the regime\u2019s broader strategy of using foreign nationals and dual citizens as bargaining chips for political and economic concessions from Western governments. Arnaud highlighted the case of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amnesty.org\/en\/documents\/mde13\/8279\/2024\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ahmadreza Djalali<\/a>, a Swedish-Iranian academic sentenced to death, as another victim of this strategy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThousands of Iranians are also imprisoned for opposing the regime, subjected to savage physical and psychological torture,\u201d Arnaud said. \u201cMany have been executed or are on death row.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Arnaud criticized the lack of decisive international action to address Iran\u2019s human rights violations. \u201cFor 45 years, this has been the reality in Iran, but it has intensified in recent years. European leaders must take stronger steps to stop this state-sponsored human trafficking and brutality.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Arnaud\u2019s firsthand account serves as a powerful reminder of the human cost of the Iranian regime\u2019s policies. His call for global solidarity against Tehran\u2019s actions resonates as a plea for justice not only<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/publications\/special-reports\/an-overview-of-irans-history-of-hostage-taking-and-how-western-appeasement-has-fueled-tehrans-terrorism\/\"> for foreign hostages<\/a> but also for the countless Iranians who continue to endure systemic abuse under the regime.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThis isn\u2019t just my story,\u201d Arnaud concluded. \u201cIt\u2019s the story of thousands of others who are still suffering. The world must not remain silent.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Louis Arnaud, a French banking consultant and former hostage in Iran, has shared harrowing details about his two-year imprisonment in Tehran&rsquo;s infamous Evin Prison. 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