IRAN INDICTS RENOWNED CANADIAN-IRANIAN PROFESSOR HOMA HOODFAR

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Source: Headline News

Canadian-Iranian anthropologist Homa Hoodfar, an expert in the study of women in Muslim societies, was indicted on unknown charges in Iran on Monday. The 65-year-old author and professor emerita at Montreal’s Concordia University now sits in Tehran’s notorious Evin Prison, while colleagues and family fervently campaign for her release. Iran’s indictment of Hoodfar and several other dual-nationals this week follows her arrest on June 6 after months of monitoring and questioning from security forces. Hoodfar had previously been set to leave Iran in March after a brief trip visiting relatives and conducting academic work, when family members say Revolutionary Guard officers seized the professor’s passports, along with her research papers and computer.

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Amnesty International link:

https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/mde13/4257/2016/en/

Iranian news agencies report that Dr. Hoodfar had been indicted but did not provide details on the nature of the charges. Neither her lawyer nor her family have been informed of the actual charges against her. Professor Hoodfar remains in solitary confinement.

Professor Homa Hoodfar, a respected Canadian scholar and researcher on women and the family in the Middle East and the Muslim World, is being held in Tehran’s notorious Evin prison. She holds Canadian, Irish and Iranian citizenship.

Dr. Hoodfar was in Iran visiting family and undertaking some archival research on women’s participation in public life since 1906 when Revolutionary Guards detained her for questioning March 10, 2016. Authorities searched the house, seizing her passport, phone, research papers and computer.

[DetlefK]

1. Iran's theocracy is losing the battle for hearts and minds and they know it. They are afraid.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/homa-hoodfar-iran-jailed_us_5783ad8fe4b0c590f7ea1b66?ir=WorldPost&section=us_world&utm_hp_ref=world

Iran's population is on average very young and they don't really care about the islamic revolution or the Great Satan America. They want jobs, freedoms and a good life.

The iranian "conservatives" are slowly losing their cultural power, their power of setting the course where iranian society is going. Just like extremist Christians in the US, they are so used to to controlling everything that they regard NOT controlling everything as an attack on iranian culture.

[uawchild]

2. Very true

A generational change is inevitable in Iran.

[MADem]

3. It is just too dangerous to go.

If you want to see family the best way is to see if they can get travel documents and buy them a ticket to come to you--really.

Or if they don't want to go that far, meet them in Kuwait or Bahrain.

It's just too fraught with drama to go back. You become a pawn of their failed policies.