Homa Hoodfar arrest. Concordia honorand.
Concordia in the news
Posted on June 13, 2016
University affairs
Various issues concerning Concordia University are often reported on by news outlets. Here is the most recent coverage pertaining to the institution:
- Coverage continues of the arrest and detention in Iran of retired Concordia professor Homa Hoodfar:
- The initial story of Hoodfar's unexplained detention at Iran's Evin prison is picked up by Campus Watch and Greenwich Time.
- Foreign Affairs Minister Stéphane Dion spoke about the Canadian goverment's work on behalf of Homa Hoodfar in an interview on CBC television's Power & Politics (no link available).
- Hanieh Ziaei, coordinator of the Observatoire sur le Moyen-Orient of UQAM's Chaire Raoul-Dandurand was interviewed on the Radio-Canada radio program, Désautels le dimanche.
- Iran News Update, Beirut Business Report and The Tower write about the threat to Iranians with dual citizenship who travel back to Iran.
- The National Council of Resistance of Iran posts an article on Amnesty International's call for Hoodfar's release, Care2 Petitions posts a petition demanding her release, and an editorial appeared in Sunday's edition of The Toronto Star calling on Ottawa to press Iran to set her free. The editorial is reprised in the e-edition of The Toronto Star, Waterloo Chronicle, The Waterloo Record, Our Windsor, Northbay Nipissing News.
- Campus Watch reprises an earlier piece from Inside Higher Ed in which Hoodfar's arrest is mentioned.
- CBC.ca posts the text version of an interview with Marina Nemat (no link available), co-chair of the board of directors at the Canadian Centre for Victims of Torture. Nemat was once detained at Evin prison, when she was 16. Canada Standard links to the CBC text.
- University World News links to an earlier CBC report on Hoodfar's detention in Iran.
- Yahoo! News posts a piece from its Daily Brew blog reporting Amnesty International's assertion that Hoodfar's detention at Evin prison brings to five the number of prisoners with connections to Canada being held by Iran.
- TVAnouvelles.ca picks up a story from Agence France-Presse about the recent Canadian court ruling that ordered 13-million dollars worth of non-diplomastic Iranian assets in Canada be seized and turned over to the families of American victims of attacks allegedly ordered by the Iranian regime.
- In other University Affairs coverage:
- New Concordia honorand, entreprepeur Arlene Dickinson, was interviewed for Radio Canada International's The LINK, where she reflected on the honour. The Dickinson segment begins at the 19:20-mark.