Iran frees Iranian-Canadian academic on humanitarian grounds: Qassemi
A file photo of Iranian-Canadian scholar Homa Hoodfar/ Iran says it has released an Iranian-Canadian academic, who had been imprisoned in Tehran since June for seeking to undermine security in the Islamic Republic, on humanitarian grounds. "Homa Hoodfar, the retired professor of Canadian universities, who had been detained in Iran on certain charges, was released this afternoon on humanitarian reasons such as [her] illness,” Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Qassemi said on Monday. He added that the scholar had left Tehran for ...
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