Tehran Times - A court in Iran has sentenced Fariba Adelkhah, a senior research fellow at Sciences Po University in Paris, to six years in prison on national security charges.

According to Adelkhah�s lawyer, she was sentenced to five years in jail for �gathering and conspiring against national security,� as well as one year for �propaganda against the Islamic Republic�.

�We have appealed and if accepted, the sentence will drop to five years,� lawyer Saeid Dehghan told the Reuters news agency.

Adelkhah, a 60-year-old anthropologist and researcher at Sciences Po�s Center for International Studies (CERI) in Paris, was reportedly arrested in June 2019 on charges of espionage.