Iran says Canadian-Iranian committed suicide in jail; more arrests expected
Iran’s judiciary said on Sunday an Iranian-Canadian activist had committed suicide in detention because of the weight of evidence against him in a spying case, an Iranian news agency reported. Kavous Seyed-Emami’s son on Saturday wrote on Twitter that his father, arrested on Jan. 24, had died in prison. Environmental activist Seyed-Emami, 63, a dual national, was a sociology professor at Iran’s Imam Sadegh University. “The news of my father’s passing is impossible to fathom,” son Raam Emami wrote. “I still can’t believe this.” The family ...
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