Homa Hoodfar.
Concordia in the news
Posted on September 15, 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:
- Media in Canada and around the world continue to report news, which broke yesterday, of a group of twenty former United Nations special human rights investigators calling on Iran to release Homa Hoodfar: The Times (UK),CTVNews.ca, CBC.ca, Radio-Canada.ca, Radio Canada International, Le Devoir, LaPresse.ca, Le Droit, Maclean's, The Globe and Mail, The Toronto Star, L'actualité, CJAD.com, 24news.ca, Canada Standard, The Hamilton Spectator, One News Page, Newscaf, Bay Today, CdnPoli.net, Super Live Canada, Canada News,Quebec Online News and numerous others; media continued to update the Homa Hoodfar detention as they marked the 100th day of her imprisonment, yesterday: Belfast Telegraph, Vice, Ad Hoc News, Diario Avanzada; CBC.ca references the Hoodfar detention in a report about a call from the Iranian Canadian Congress and Liberal MP Majid Jowhari for the federal government to normalize diplomatic relations with Iran; the solitary confinement of Homa Hoodfar is mentioned in coverage in The Tower, Payvand and News Press Agency of the imprisonment of British-Iranian humanitarian worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe; My Kawartha reports that a local Amnesty International group in Peterborough has added its voice to the call for Hoodfar's release.