A Concordia University colleague, Professor Homa Hoodfar, has been detained by Iranian authorities since early June, and CBC now reports that she has been indicted. The charges have not been specified.

President George Davison has sent this letter to the President of the Islamic Republic of Iran calling for her release.

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