Homa Hoodfar.
Concordia in the news
Posted on September 14, 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:
- Friends, colleagues and other supporters of Homa Hoodfar mark the 100th day of Hoodfar's solitary confinement in Iran's Evin prison with a news release denouncing her detention and condemning what the group warns will be a show trial. The Montreal Gazette (see attachedPDF) marks the 100th day with an editorial cartoon on the front page, above the fold, of its paper edition. In related news: there is extensive coverage of the rejection by a judge in Iran of Homa Hoodfar's lawyer and his imposition of another lawyer: The Canadian Press (picked up by CTVnews.ca, The Globe and Mail, CJAD.com, Times Colonist, Life in Quebec, News 1130), La Presse Canadienne (picked up by LaPresse.ca, L'actualité, Huffington Post Québec, Journal Métro), Agence QMI (picked up by Le Journal de Montréal, Le Journal de Québec, TVAnouvelles.ca, 570News.com, Titres Presse, FR Jour, Marco), The Toronto Star, Toronto Star e-edition, Cambridge Times, Our Windsor, Christian News Today, News Thrive, FX Tribune; the arrival of a new, court-appointed lawyer in the Hoodfar case is discussed in a segment of the Radio Canada television news magazine '24 heures en 60 minutes' featuring Geneviève Rail, professor in the Simone de Beauvoir Institute, and Amanda Ghahremani, Hoodfar's niece and spokesperson for the family. Watch the segment, beginning at the 37-minute mark; Ghahremani is interviewed also on the set of Montreal Breakfast Television. The Globe and Mail, Radio-Canada.ca and Le Devoir report that twenty former United Nations special human rights investigators are calling on Iran to release Hoodfar. The story is also picked up by Medicine Hat News, Winnipeg Free Press, The Brandon Sun, CFJC Today and Vice; The Globe and Mail (reprised by Press Reader) publishes a letter to the editor by Alex Neve, secretary general of Amnesty International Canada, who adds his voice to the growing chorus of calls for Hoodfar's release from Evin prison; The Irish Federation of University Teachers posts a letter, which has appeared on several other sites since Monday, calling on Iran to let Hoodfar go; RadioZamaneh.com, reprised by My Informs, reports on initiatives within the academic community, notably in Canada and Ireland, to press for Hoodfar's release; University Affairs writes about what Universities can do on behalf of professors who, like Hoodfar, are detained abroad.