Olivier Grondeau, former hostage in Iran: "Poetry is what kept me going

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The available report indicates that Olivier Grondeau spent two and a half years in prison in Iran. The report also states that his name is less well known than those of hostages whose cases have been covered by the media. His story is quite similar. Arrested in Shiraz on October 12, 2022, at the time of the protests following the death of Jina Mahsa Amini, he was released in March 2025. He had only decided to talk about his situation a few months earlier. Olivier Grondeau is a low-budget traveller, a poet, an avid reader, a former scrabble champion. It is his wit, his humour, his imagination that have helped him to hold on. He tells it in a book published by the iconoclast: "Joseph in the Night"

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