CTV:

Concordia Homa Hoodfar

After a meeting with Canada’s foreign affairs minister and another top official, the niece of a Canadian professor imprisoned in Iran says she remains concerned but hopeful that her aunt will be released.

Concordia University researcher Homa Hoodfar, 65, was arrested earlier this month and placed in Evin prison, the same prison where Montreal photojournalist Zahra Kazemi died in 2003 after she was the victim of rape and torture.

Amanda Ghahremani, Hoodfar’s niece, told CTV News Channel Thursday that her aunt is being held in a specific ward of Evin that is run by counter-intelligence units of the Revolutionary Guard.

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