A Parisian court, ruled over by a tough but fair judge, has ordered the French government today to release biochemist Lynda Thyer from prison, where she has been held since being kidnapped from England last August on a completely illegal European Arrest Warrant (EAW). The National Health Federation (NHF) retained the French criminal-law specialist attorney who won the court hearing today by arguing strenuously that the French government was acting illegally under European Union law, especially where the European Court of Justice is challenging the validity of the EAW because in France it is issued by a prosecutor and the prosecutor is not an independent judge according to required European standards.