FW: [AASNet] Detention of Iranian-Canadian anthropologist Professor Homa Hoodfar
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From: Pamela McGrath [mailto:pammc...@bigpond.com]
Sent: Thursday, 16 June 2016 9:36 AM
To: AASNET
Subject: [AASNet] Detention of Iranian-Canadian anthropologist Professor Homa Hoodfar
Dear Colleagues,
Please consider throwing your support behind an international effort calling for the immediate and unconditional release of Professor Homa Hoodfar, an Iranian-Canadian anthropologist and Professor Emerita at Concordia University in Montreal, who has been detained in the Evin prison in Tehran since the 6th of June.
Professor Hoodfar was not politically active, so her detention has come as a surprise. Her academic work is concerned with issues of gender and sexuality, and her predicament vividly illustrates some of the issues of ‘danger and fieldwork’ that have recently been discussed at WCAA forums. She suffered a mild stroke last year and has a rare neurological condition, so her family and colleagues are extremely anxious about her health. She has had no access to her family or her lawyers, or to her required daily medication.
More details about Professor Hoodfar’s situation are available at homahoodfar.org
More information can be found on the website of the Canadian Anthropology Society, here: http://www.cas-sca.ca/news-and-announcements/2609-promoting-the-work-of-canadian-anthropologists-in-canada
If you would like to take action, there are two active petitions seeking her release:
· the Avaaz Petition and
· the Academics in support of Homa Hoodar petition.
There are other suggestions on how to take action provided on the CAS website. A letter of support is also available for information and distribution on the AAA website. The AAS will be putting its name to a similar letter from the WCAA to be sent by the end of the week.
Kind regards
Pam
Pamela McGrath
PRESIDENT
Australian Anthropological Society
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