ILNA: French President Nicolas Sarkozy is working to secure the release of a French academic who is accused of espionage charges, the president’s office said Monday.In meddling statement France’s Foreign Ministry called the release of Clotilde Reiss and a French-Iranian woman also on trial, Nazak Afshar, “our very first priority”.

Reiss, 24, was arrested July 1 after taking photos of an Iranian protesters.
She and Afshar, an employee of France’s Embassy, are among more than 100 people on trial in Tehran.
Sarkozy is following Reiss’ case “extremely attentively” and is “multiplying his contacts among all those” who could help secure her release, a presidential aide said.
France’s ambassador in Tehran is in “constant contact with the Iranian authorities” about the two women’s detention, Foreign Ministry spokesman Romain Nadal claimed.