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TEHERAN – After more than a year and a half of detention in Iran, the French Benjamin Briere he was sentenced to eight years and eight months in prison for “espionage” and “propaganda” against the regime, a decision defined as “political” by his family and his lawyer who appealed to the French government.
Brière, 36, who has always portrayed himself as a tourist, was arrested in May 2020 for taking “photographs of prohibited areas” with a drone in a natural park in Iran.