Ex-UN investigators call for release of Canadian academic jailed in Iran
NEW YORK — Twenty former United Nations special human rights investigators added their voices on Wednesday to the growing calls for Iran to release a jailed Canadian-Iranian academic.
They raised Homa Hoodfar’s case as the UN continued its general assembly in New York.
The 65-year-old, who taught at Montreal’s Concordia University, has been held at Tehran’s notorious Evin prison since June 6.
The former rapporteurs said Hoodfar’s academic work poses no threat to Iranian security and that she should be released immediately.