{"id":9376,"date":"2018-03-07T22:32:28","date_gmt":"2018-03-08T03:32:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/?p=9376"},"modified":"2018-03-07T22:32:28","modified_gmt":"2018-03-08T03:32:28","slug":"wife-of-iranian-canadian-professor-who-died-in-tehran-prison-detained-en-route-to-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/2018\/03\/07\/wife-of-iranian-canadian-professor-who-died-in-tehran-prison-detained-en-route-to-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"Wife of Iranian-Canadian professor who died in Tehran prison detained en route to Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"

Grieving family ‘harassed and threatened’ by authorities, son says from plane<\/span><\/h3>\n

CBC News<\/a><\/span> Mar 07, 2018<\/span>: The two sons of a Canadian-Iranian professor who died in a Tehran\u00a0prison last month<\/a>\u00a0say their mother,\u00a0Maryam\u00a0Mombeini,\u00a0was detained by Iranian authorities while trying to board a flight to Canada early on Thursday.<\/p>\n

The sons were allowed to leave\u00a0and are en route to Vancouver.<\/p>\n

“\u200bAfter being constantly harassed and threatened, our family has decided, for the sake of our own safety, to leave Iran,” Ramin\u00a0Seyed-Emami\u00a0told CBC News in an email from the plane, which took off at about 2:30 a.m. local time.<\/p>\n

He said\u00a0his family had been living in “complete chaos and terror” since his father’s death.<\/p>\n

Authorities in Tehran say his father, Kavous\u00a0Seyed-Emami, who was 63,\u00a0committed\u00a0suicide while in Iran’s notorious Evin prison \u2014 just two weeks after being arrested on suspicion of espionage and spying.<\/p>\n

Family and friends of\u00a0do\u00a0not believe<\/a>\u00a0he took his own life. The family’s\u00a0request for an autopsy was denied by Iranian authorities.<\/p>\n

The parliamentary secretary to Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland, Omar\u00a0Alghabra,\u00a0will be greeting the brothers on their arrival in Vancouver,\u00a0Seyed-Emami\u00a0said.<\/p>\n

In a tweet, Freeland\u00a0said she was “outraged” Mombeini\u00a0had been detained, and demanded that she be allowed to return to Canada.<\/p>\n

I am outraged to learn that Maryam Mombeini, widow of Kavous Seyed-Emami, was barred from leaving Iran. We demand that, as a Canadian, she be given the freedom to return home.<\/p>\n

\u2014 @cafreeland<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Kavous\u00a0Seyed-Emami\u00a0was\u00a0a U.S.-trained scholar in sociology and\u00a0the managing director of the Persian Wildlife Heritage Foundation, which seeks to protect Iran’s rare animals.<\/p>\n

Canada has no embassy in Iran. The two countries\u00a0broke off diplomatic relations in 2012.<\/p>\n

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