PARIS — A French-Iranian educational who has been detained in Iran for nearly a yr was sentenced on Saturday to 6 years in jail on nationwide safety expenses, in line with her lawyer.

The tutorial, Fariba Adelkhah, was sentenced “to 5 years jail for gathering and conspiring in opposition to Iran’s nationwide safety,” the lawyer, Saeid Dehghan, advised Reuters, including that she was additionally given a one-year jail time period “for propaganda in opposition to the Islamic Republic.”

Mr. Dehghan wrote on Twitter that his shopper would attraction the choice. He couldn’t be instantly reached for remark.

Iran has arrested dozens of twin residents on espionage expenses in recent times, frequently utilizing their launch as a bargaining chip to hunt the repatriation of Iranian prisoners in different nations. Ms. Adelkhah, who was arrested in Tehran in June 2019, was additionally accused of espionage, which is punishable by dying, however these expenses have been lifted earlier this yr. The nationwide safety expenses, nonetheless, have been upheld.

Ms. Adelkhah has been detained in Evin jail, north of Tehran, the place the British-Iranian national Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe was additionally imprisoned. An worker of the Thomson Reuters Basis, Ms. Zaghari-Ratcliffe was arrested in 2016 and sentenced to 5 years in jail on expenses of plotting in opposition to the Iranian authorities. She and her household have strenuously denied the costs.

In March, Ms. Zaghari-Ratcliffe was briefly launched over fears that the coronavirus was spreading in Iranian prisons. Iran launched greater than 85,000 prisoners in March in response to the pandemic.

Final yr, an Iranian worker of the British Council, Aras Amiri, was sentenced in Iran to 10 years in jail. In 2018, a British-Australian researcher, Kylie Moore-Gilbert, was additionally sentenced to 10 years on expenses of espionage.

Ms. Adelkhah, 61, is an skilled on Shia Islam on the Middle for Worldwide Research at Sciences Po Paris, and had been researching Iran for 3 a long time when she was arrested alongside Mr. Marchal, who went again to work on the heart in Paris this previous week.

France’s overseas minister, Jean-Yves Le Drian, condemned the sentencing on Saturday.

“This sentencing is just not based mostly on any critical ingredient or reality and is thus a political resolution,” Mr. Le Drien mentioned in an announcement despatched by the International Ministry. “We’re urging the Iranian authorities to right away launch Ms. Adelkhah.”