Freed Canadian-Iranian professor Homa Hoodfar returns to Montreal on Thursday
MONTREAL — Homa Hoodfar will make her long-awaited return to Canada on Thursday after spending nearly four months in an Iranian prison.
The retired Canadian-Iranian anthropology professor was released earlier this week and flown out of Iran to Oman.
Concordia University said in a statement Wednesday that Hoodfar, 65, will land early Thursday and meet reporters at Montreal’s Pierre Elliott Trudeau Airport.
Hoodfar had been detained since June 6 at Tehran’s notorious Evin prison on allegations of “dabbling in feminism” and security matters on what her family and supporters called trumped-up accusations of collaboration with a hostile government and propaganda against the state.