Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his foreign minister on Tuesday demand that Iran allow the Canadian widow of an environmentalist who died in prison to leave the country.
In a Twitter message, the Canadian leader says: “Iran must allow Maryam Mombeini to leave the country and travel to Canada to be with her family.”
He is echoed by Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland, who says in a statement: “We continue to call on Iranian authorities to immediately give Maryam Mombeini, a Canadian citizen, the freedom to return home.”
As well, the pair renews calls for the Iranian regime to explain how her husband, Kavous Seyed-Emami, an academic and environmentalist, died in Tehran’s Evin prison in February.
Canada is “gravely concerned” about Seyed-Emami’s death,” Freeland says.
“The regime must provide answers in the death of her husband, Kavous Seyed-Emami, in Evin prison,” Trudeau says.
Seyed-Emami was arrested in January and accused of spying for Israel and the United States. Iranian authorities said he committed suicide in his cell, but this has been disputed by the family.
— AFP
Kavous Seyed-Emami. (Screen capture: YouTube)
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