This article was last updated on April 16, 2022
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The Trudeau government has expressed serious concerns about the arrest and imprisonment of Canadian-Iranian professor, Dr. Homa Hoodfar, and claims it’s unsure why Iranian authorities have had her arrested. Whereas on the other hand, Iran’s Justice Minister has hinted that the arrest is linked to Canada’s refusal to extradite another dual citizen accused of money-laundering, Mahmoud Reza Khavari, who is the former chief of the Melli Bank of Iran.
Canadian government has stated that it will do everything possible to free Concordia University anthropology professor, Hoodfar, who was in Iran studying gender and Islam when she was initially detained in March, released and then rearrested and jailed last week. The parliamentary secretary for consular affairs, Omar Alghabra, alleged that “it’s very urgent. We are very concerned about Dr. Hoodfar and we want to do everything we can to get her out of there as quickly as possible,” adding that “we are trying to understand what happened.”
According to family members of the 65-year-old, Dr. Hoodfar had suffered a stroke in the past and was feeling under psychological pressure from interrogations by Iran’s secret service. A friend and professor at DePaul University in Chicago, Kaveh Ehsani, claimed that “she is quite ill. A rare neurological disease,” adding that “we haven’t been able to get her medication for her. She hasn’t seen a doctor. We’re quite worried about the overall situation.” Experts are suggesting that Iran is using Dr. Hoodfar as leverage to get its hands on a long sought after Iranian-Canadian banker, Khavari, now living in Toronto.
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