Family of Late Conservationist Kavous Seyed-Emami Petitions Iran to Respond to State TV Smears
Widow Remains Barred From Leaving Country Despite Expired Travel Ban One year after his father’s suspicious death in Tehran’s Evin Prison, Ramin ...
Tag : Iranian-Canadian
January 30, 2019
Eight Conservationists Tried in Iran on Basis of Retracted False “Confessions”
First Half of Indictment Lacks Evidence, Relies on Statements Made Under Extreme Duress January 30, 2019 – In their first trial session since being detained in ...
August 24, 2018
Fourth Human Rights Lawyer Slapped With National Security Charges in Iran
Arash Keykhosravi, a lawyer representing the family of an Iranian Canadian man who recently died under suspicious circumstances in state custody, has been slapped with national security charges, making him the fourth defense attorney detained under this pretense in Iran ...
May 17, 2018
Iranian Canadian’s Widow Maryam Mombeini Hospitalized Two Months After Being Banned From Leaving Iran
The wife of an Iranian Canadian academic who died in Iranian custody under suspicious circumstances in February 2018 was hospitalized for three days after exhibiting symptoms of a ...
March 13, 2018
Iran: End Persecution of Families Seeking Truth and Justice For Detainees Who Died in Detention
JOINT PUBLIC STATEMENT 13 March 2018 The Iranian authorities should end their cruel campaign of harassment and intimidation against the families of detainees who have ...
March 8, 2018
Ongoing Harassment: Wife of Iranian-Canadian Who Died in Iran’s Evin Prison “Banned” From Leaving Country
Lives of Seyed-Emami Family Thrown Into “Chaos and Terror” March 8, 2018—The Iranian government should immediately allow the wife of Iranian-Canadian academic and environmentalist ...
February 23, 2018
UN Experts: Iran’s Spying Charges Against Wildlife Activists “Hard to Fathom”
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February 15, 2018
Environmentalists Detained in Iran Denied Legal Counsel Weeks After Arrests
Some Detainees Allowed Brief Contact With Their Families Environmental activists who were detained at the same time as Kavous Seyed-Emami—who recently died in ...
February 12, 2018
Clear Signs of State Cover-Up in Prison Death of Iranian-Canadian Academic in Iran
Distraught Family Under Enormous Pressure to Bury Body Quickly and Not Speak Publicly About the Death February 12, 2018—The family ...
February 10, 2018
Iranian-Canadian Academic Dies in Custody While Under Interrogations
A third detainee, 63-year old Iranian-Canadian professor Kavous Seyed-Emami, has died in custody in Iran, barely 17 days after his arrest and while under interrogations ...
June 8, 2016
Iranian-Canadian Academic Detained During Visit to Iran
Homa Hoodfar, an Iranian-Canadian scholar and expert on gender and development in Islam, was arrested on June 6, 2016 during ...