France, July 18 -- The family of a 19-year-old Franco-German cyclist arrested in Iran while on a Europe-to-Asia bike trip has said he is "innocent" and demanded proof he was alive from Iranian authorities.
Family and friends of Lennart Monterlos said in a statement sent to French news agency AFP they had not received any explanation for his arrest since he disappeared in Iran on June 16, several days into unprecedented Israeli air strikes on Iran.
A month later, "we have no official information about either the place of his detention or the reasons for his arrest in Bandar-Abbas, Iran, during the war", they said.
"We count on the efforts of French diplomats, who we know to be mobilised, for the swift release of our very young son, who ...
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