Roland Marchal is a French sociologist who was imprisoned in Iran from June 2019 to March 2020.
In 1997, Marchal joined the staff of the Centre for International Studies (CERI) at Sciences Po.
[1] In June 2019, Marchal traveled to Iran to visit his Franco-Iranian Sciences Po colleague Fariba Adelkhah.
[3] On 28 October 2019, Marchal's lawyer in Iran said Iranian authorities had accused his client of "collusion against national security".
[5] Their trial was scheduled to begin on 3 March 2020, but was postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic.