Benjamin Brière

Benjamin Brière (; born 1985 or 1986) is a French traveller and blogger who was arrested by the Iranian authorities in May 2020 after being accused of flying a drone near the border of Iran with Turkmenistan. After being held on charges of spying and propaganda, he was sentenced in January 2022 to eight years and eight months in prison. He was released in May 2023.

Imprisonment Brière is from Lyon. In 2018 he began a van trip, was arrested on 26 May by security forces on charges of photography in a prohibited area, use of a recreational drone in a natural park, and posting on social media questioning Iranian laws that mandate the hijab for women. He was placed in custody in Vakilabad prison in Mashhad, on a spying charge; on the first anniversary of his detention, in May 2021, a propaganda charge was added. According to his lawyer, Brière had not been informed of an additional charge of "cooperation with states hostile to Iran", of which he was also found guilty. He was released on 12 May 2023, together with fellow French citizen Bernard Phelan.