Homa Hoodfar. Neoshop.

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

• Le Devoir and Open Canada, writing about a push in Ottawa to normalize diplomatic relations with Iran, ponder how normalization could affect the outcome in the Homa Hoodfar case, as human rights organizations and concerned individuals continue to press for her release from Iran's Evin prison; Le Devoir publishes another appeal in its editorial pages for the Canadian government to do all it can to secure Hoodfar's release; LaPresse.ca picks up an opinion piece from La Presse + (Friday, September 16) in which Geneviève Rail, professor in the Simone de Beauvoir Institute, calls on all who are concerned about academic freedom and human rights to join the international call for Hoodfar's release; Ireland's The Journal picks up news that the Irish Federation of University Teachers has called on Irish foreign affairs minister Charlie Flanagan to intervene in the Hoodfar case; Secularism is a Women's Issuereprises a piece from Vice marking Hoodfar's 100th day in captivity, last Wednesday; The McGill Daily runs a commentary marking the 100th day since Hoodfar's arrest; Canada News and Scoopnest link to an earlier piece from Huffington Post Québec on the release from a prison in China of Canadian citizen Kevin Garratt, who had been arrested in 2014 on espionage allegations. The report mentions the Homa Hoodfar case. Hoodfar's detention is also referenced in a related report in App News; the Women's Committee of the National Council of Resistance of Iran reprises an earlier report on an appeal from a group of former UN human rights investigators for Hoodfar's return to Canada; Exposing Iran posts an invitation for people to sign any of a number of ongoing petitions demanding Hoodfar's release.
• CBC.ca reports the creation of the Neoshop store, opening this fall, where Montrealers will be able to purchase the products of local startup companies. It mentions that the store is an initiative of the Quartier de l'innovation (QI) and lists Concordia among the institutional and corporate partners that have joined the QI since its creation in 2013.

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