Environmentalists are latest targets for arrest in Iran; one has died in prison
by Shashank Bengali and Ramin Mostaghim, Los Angeles Times
Feb 12, 2018
3 minutes
TEHRAN, Iran - Iranian academics and environmentalists are demanding answers from authorities after several colleagues were arrested on espionage charges and one, a prominent professor, died in prison.
Kavous Seyed Emami, a sociology professor who also held Canadian citizenship, hanged himself while in solitary confinement in Tehran's Evin Prison, where political prisoners are usually held, Iranian judicial officials said over the weekend.
His family and colleagues doubt the government's account that he killed himself.
Seyed Emami had been arrested two weeks earlier along with seven other environmental activists who were accused of using their
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