The trial of French lecturer Clotilde Reiss, charged with espionage after attending protests against alleged fraud in Iran"s June 12 presidential election, will resume Tuesday, the ISNA news agency reported Sunday, , according to dpa. The second trial of the French national will be held in a Revolutionary Court and be attended by her lawyer, ISNA said. Reiss was arrested July 1 shortly before her planned departure from a Tehran. She was charged after she admitted in court that she had attended the protests and presented the French embassy in Tehran with a report. She was released from prison in mid-August into the custody of the French embassy in Tehran for an unknown amount of bail and obliged to remain in Iran until the end of her trial. Iran had last Wednesday called on France to stop political pressure over the French lecturer Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast said that the charges against Reiss were documented. Therefore, there could be no acquittal on grounds of political pressure "and nobody was allowed to tell the relevant judge what to do." The spokesman was referring to last Tuesday"s remarks by French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner demanding formal guarantees from Iran that Reiss would stay in the French embassy in Tehran and not be transferred to jail again while awaiting her verdict.
