RFERL:
Iranian authorities have extended a travel ban on the wife of a prominent ecologist who died under suspicious circumstances while in prison.
Maryam Mobeini, the Iranian-Canadian widow of the late ecologist and professor Kavous Seyyed-Emami, also a dual Iranian-Canadian citizen, was stopped at Tehran’s airport by plainclothes Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) agents last March when she attempted to board a plane bound for Vancouver via Frankfurt with her two adult sons, Mehran and Ramin.
Her sons left to Canada, but Mobeini was told she could not leave the country and her passport was seized, Ramin Seyyed-Emami said, adding that before they parted, she told her sons, “I just want you guys to be safe and away from this horrible place. Don’t ever come back."
Mobeini’s attorney, Payam Derafshan, told the Iranian official news agency (IRNA) February 18 that the order barring her client from leaving the country has been extended. He did not elaborate on when this decision was taken and the duration of the ban.
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