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Paris , Mar 19 (EFE / EPA) .- (Camera: Yoan Valat) Activists from Reporters Without Borders (RWB) protest on Friday outside the Moroccan embassy in Paris to show their support for the historian and human rights activist Maati Monjib, detained since December 29 and sentenced to one year in prison accused of violating Moroccan security.FOOTAGE OF PROTEST IN FRONT OF THE MOROCCAN EMBASSY IN PARIS.
The United States demands that Iran immediately release a ship seized off Oman's coast in avowed retaliation for US actions. "The Iranian government must immediately release the ship and its crew. This unlawful seizure of a commercial vessel is just the latest behavior by Iran or enabled by Iran aimed at disrupting international commerce," State Department spokesman Vedant Patel tells reporters. SOUNDBITE
Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg removed and detained by police outside the InterContinental London Park Lane during the "Oily Money Out" demonstration organised by Fossil Free London and Greenpeace on the sidelines of the opening day of the Energy Intelligence Forum 2023. The 20-year-old activist, who has become a key face of the movement to fight climate change, was taken away by police officers and put into the back of a police van. IMAGES
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, speaking to the media for the first time since being released from six years of detention in Iran, says she believes "that the meaning of freedom is never going to be complete until such time as all of us who are unjustly detained in Iran are reunited with their families", citing Morad Tahbaz, other dual nations and prisoners of conscience. IMAGES
The plane carrying two British-Iranians who spent years detained in Iran lands in the UK early Thursday after London settled a longstanding debt over a cancelled defence contract with Tehran. Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and Anoosheh Ashoori touched down at RAF Brize Norton in southwest England at 01:08am (0108 GMT) after being released on Wednesday. IMAGES