“A manifest error of assessment”. This is how the administrative court of Toulouse has just qualified the decision taken by the prefect of Savoy last January against Farideh, an Iranian woman who fled her country. This 38-year-old woman, who a few months earlier was marching through the streets of Tehran to demand more freedoms, was arrested in mid-January at Chambéry airport after passing through Italy.
The state services had then issued an order of obligation to leave the territory against him as well as a ban on returning to France for two years before being transferred to the detention center of Cornebarrieu, north of Toulouse.
An unimaginable situation for Farideh who during his hearings but also before the judge of freedoms and detention had indicated that he preferred “to die here than to return to Iran”. At the helm, she explained that part of her family had been placed in detention for their participation in the demonstrations and that her ex-husband beat her and had obtained the right of custody of their two children in a country where the law of women is far from being a benchmark.
His identity delivered to the Iranian authorities
Farideh was quickly released on January 18 but was therefore still under an obligation to leave the territory, to the great displeasure of his lawyers who had denounced the attitude of the Savoy prefecture “which went so far as to ask the Iranian authorities, the same Iranian authorities that she is fleeing, he revealed his identity to his persecutors”, lamented Me Mathilde Bachelet on March 8 during her argument before the administrative court.
Arguments which were heard by the administrative judge who noted in his decision that the fears of the young woman are “corroborated by numerous press articles which refer to recent arbitrary arrests, death sentences and public executions in this country ” . Farideh, who aspired to join her fiancé in England, can now stay in France without fear of being deported to her country. “Very good news,” concludes Me Bachelet.