Iranian-Canadian professor Kavous Seyed-Emami reportedly dies in custody
TEHRAN, Iran — The death of an Iranian-Canadian professor in Iran points to a pattern of the country’s judicial authorities targeting dual nationals, according to the head of a non-profit agency that promotes human rights in Iran.
Kavous Seyed-Emami, a professor of sociology at Tehran’s Imam Sadiq University, was detained last month, according to Hadi Ghaemi, executive director of the New York-based Center for Human Rights in Iran.
He died in custody less than three weeks later, according a social media post from his son, who goes by the stage name King Raam.
“The news of my father’s passing is impossible to fathom,” Raam wrote in a post on Twitter and Instagram Saturday morning. “I still can’t believe this.”