Montreal academics push for release of professor jailed in Iran
MONTREAL — The colleagues of a Canadian-Iranian university professor jailed in Iran are urging governments to apply pressure as her detention enters a third month with no end in sight.
Homa Hoodfar, who taught at Concordia University, has been held at Tehran’s notorious Evin prison since June 6 and recent reports suggest her health is deteriorating.
With little information about her plight, Montreal academics from Concordia want the Canadian and Irish governments (Hoodfar also has Irish citizenship through marriage) as well as the Iranians themselves to do their utmost to free their friend.
“This is an emergency, this is a life or death situation,” Kimberley Manning of the university’s Simone de Beauvoir Institute told a news conference Wednesday.