Homa Hoodfar.

Various issues concerning Concordia University are often reported on by news outlets. Here is the most recent coverage pertaining to the institution: 

• The Canadian Press reports a claim by Amnesty International that Iranian authorities regularly put political prisoners' lives at risk by denying them medical care. It quotes Amnesty International Canada secretary general Alex Neve, who says the reported practice of denying medical care raises concerns about the state of health of professor emerita Homa Hoodfar, being held at Evin prison without contact with family or her lawyer and with no indication that she is receiving the medication she needs for a neurological condition: CBC.ca, Montreal Gazette, LaPresse.ca, CTVNews.ca, L'actualité, Journal Métro, Inside Toronto, Toronto City News, Times Colonist, CP24, My Sask, Houston Today, Alaska Highway News, The Free Press, Cape Breton Post, Thunder Bay Chronicle Journal, Blackburn News, National Council of Resistance of Iran, El Arabiya, Castanet and more than one-hundred others. 
• In related coverage: The Times (UK) reports that Hoodfar continues to be held in solitary confinement at Evin prison; Georgian Bay News publishes an appeal from Amnesty International Canada for Canadians to get behind a movement to press for Hoodfar's release and De Zesde Clan (in Dutch) posts a separate appeal on Word Press calling for signatures on a petition demanding Hoodfar be set free; University World News reprises an earlier article about a petition demanding Hoodfar's release, signed by more than 5,000 academics and authors; New Canadian Media picks up coverage of a call by author Maziar Bahari for Canadians to speak out against Hoodfar's detention; the Vancouver Sun (reprised by The Province) mentions Hoodfar's detention in a piece about the return to Canada of Iranian-born artist Parviz Tanavoli, who had previously been barred from leaving Iran.

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