Renowned Canadian-Iranian environmental activist dies in jail in Tehran

Family demands independent autopsy after judiciary claims Kavous Seyed-Emami ended his own life

Iran’s judiciary has claimed that an Iranian-Canadian activist has ended his own life in detention because of the weight of evidence against him in a spying case, an Iranian news agency reported.

Kavous Seyed-Emami’s son on Saturday wrote on Twitter that his father, arrested on 24 January, had died in prison. Environmental activist Seyed-Emami, 63, a dual national, was a sociology professor at Iran’s Imam Sadegh University.

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