Clotilde Reiss

Clotilde Reiss (born 31 July 1985) is a French doctoral student, who was arrested in connection with the protests following the 2009 presidential elections in Iran.

The Iranian Children's wife's family - his mother died when Clotilde Reiss was little - moved Clotilde in Paris, taught her already in infancy Persian. After finishing high school in Lille Reiss studied political science and received as an excellent student each year awards. Clotilde Reiss graduated from the University of Lille a master's in political science with the work on the Iranian education system and textbooks since the revolution of 1979. At the University of Isfahan in Iran, she worked as a French editor and was working on a doctoral thesis on the history and geography lessons at Iranian schools.

On 1 July 2009, she was arrested at Tehran Imam Khomeini airport as they wanted to travel to Beirut, to visit friends. On 8 August, she appeared in a show trial against the alleged instigators of the protests against the outcome of presidential elections as one of the defendants. She was accused of having photos of demonstrations in Isfahan circulated on the Internet. During the process, Clotilde Reiss is, according to the semi-state Fars news agency have admitted to have passed the Cultural Department of the French Embassy a report on the demonstrations. For a deposit in the amount of 213,000 euros Clotilde Reiss was released from Iranian prison on August 16, 2009 and expected at the French embassy in Tehran her judgment. Reiss had also admitted having written a brief report for an internship in the French Atomic Energy Agency, for her father works (APA ). On 16 May 2010, however, Clotilde Reiss was allowed to leave Iran and to leave for France.