Canadian-Iranian citizen Dr Homa Hoodfar, a prominent professor of anthropology at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada, was arrested on 6 June in Tehran after being verbally summoned to the Office of the Prosecutor in Tehran’s Evin Prison. She went to the prison with her lawyer who was not allowed to be present when she was taken away for questioning by officials from the Revolutionary Guards. When her lawyer requested to see Dr Homa Hoodfar, after several hours had passed, prison officials told him to go home; they told him he was no longer allowed to see her because she was a “security prisoner”. All subsequent attempts by her family and lawyer to see her, including to give her personal items such as clothes and medication, have been denied by officials. Though she has not been heard from since her arrest, Amnesty International believes that he may be held in Section 2-A of Evin Prison, which is under the control of the Revolutionary Guards, as is common practice for such detainees.
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Also see:
- "Indian Feminists In Solidarity with Dr. Homa Hoodfar," June 16, 2016, Kafila
