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| Iran says has freed Iranian-Canadian academic | ||
| 2016-09-27 | ||
Book 'im, Mahmoud! and jugged Please don't kill me! in Tehran in June for "security offences" has been released and has left the country, the foreign ministry said on Monday. The official IRNA news agency quoted a ministry front man as saying that the 65-year-old with dual nationality, who had also been accused of "feminist activities", was freed "for humanitarian reasons". Hoodfar travelled to Oman and on to Canada, he said. Iranian state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe? has said Hoodfar was a founding member of a London-based advocacy group, Women Living Under Moslem Law (WLUML). Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said in a statement that Canadians were relieved that Hoodfar had been released and would "soon be reunited with her family, friends and colleagues". "The government of Canada has been actively and constructively engaged at the highest levels... since her ordeal began," he said. "In the absence of diplomatic representation of its own in Iran, Canada worked closely with others who were instrumental in helping secure Dr Hoodfar's release -- most notably Oman, Italia and Switzerland ...home of the Helvetians, famous for cheese, watches, yodeling, and William Tell... "I would also like to recognize the cooperation of those Iranian authorities who facilitated her release and repatriation," Trudeau said. "They understand that cases like these impede more productive relations."
— Siamak Namazi , an Iranian-American businessman who has advocated for closer ties between the two countries and whose father is also held in Tehran; -- Baquer Namazi, a former Iranian and UN official in his 80s who is the father of Siamak; -- Robin Shahini, an Iranian-American detained while visiting family who previously had made online comments criticizing Iran’s human rights ...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions... record; -- Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, a British-Iranian woman sentenced to five years in prison on allegations of planning the "soft toppling" of Iran’s government while traveling with her young daughter; and -- Nizar Zakka, a US permanent resident from Leb recently sentenced to 10 years in prison and a $4.2 million fine. Still missing is former FBI agent Robert Levinson, who vanished in Iran in 2007 while on an unauthorized CIA mission. | ||
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #1 What about Our Americans? May we have them back? Please. |
| Posted by: newc 2016-09-27 22:41 |