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		</div><p>Families and friends of a growing number of Europeans imprisoned in Iran have gathered in Paris to call for their release.</p>
<p>The French government this week denounced the plight of seven French citizens held in Iranian prisons, calling the detentions “unjustifiable and unacceptable”.</p>
<p>Iran has detained a number of foreigners and dual nationals over the years, accusing them of espionage or other state security offences.</p>
<p>Many were convicted and sentenced after secretive trials in which rights groups said they were denied due process.</p>
<p>Supporters and family members of four of the current French prisoners – Louis Arnaud, Fariba Adelkhah, Benjamin Briere and Cecile Kohler – held a solemn, silent rally for their release on a plaza overlooking the Seine River.</p>
<p>The supporters said all were wrongly accused and some were in fragile physical or psychological health, or placed in isolation.</p>
<p>The statement added that the detainees are deprived of the most basic rights, and unable to contact loved ones.</p>
<p>Arnaud was arrested on September 28 as he was traveling in Iran as a tourist, according to France’s foreign ministry.</p>
<p>Another prisoner, Bernard Phelan, was detained last year and is in need of medical care that is not being provided.</p>
<p>Earlier on Saturday, dozens of people gathered in a park beneath the Eiffel Tower to show support for detained Belgian aid worker Olivier Vandecasteele.</p>
<p>Vandecasteele, who worked for many years for aid group Doctors of the World, was arrested in Tehran in February 2022.</p>
<p>Doctors of the World said the conditions of his detention were putting Vandecasteele’s life at risk.</p>
<p>Most of the European prisoners were detained before the protests that have shaken Iran since September over the death of a young woman, Mahsa Amini, in police custody.</p>
<p>Concerns about the detentions have grown as Iranian authorities have cracked down on the protesters.</p>
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