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A Canadian professor detained in Iran since June has been released. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau issued a statement on the release of Homa Hoodfar, a professor of sociology and anthropology at Montreal’s Concordia University. Hoodfar, who has Canadian, Iranian and Irish citizenship, studies issues related to women in Muslim societies and was in Iran to visit family and conduct research on women's participation in public life.
Hoodfar, who has a rare neurological disease that causes severe muscle weakness, had been hospitalized at one point during her detention, the CBC reported, citing her family. She had reportedly been charged with collaborating with a hostile government against national security and with propaganda against the Iranian state. A prosecutor was quoted in the Iranian press accusing Hoodfar of “dabbling in feminism.”
