Kameel Ahmady
Kameel Ahmady | |
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| کامیل احمدی | |
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| Born | |
| Nationality | British, Iranian |
| Occupation | Academic |
| Years active | 15 |
| Known for | Researching on Anthropology, Arrest in Iran |
Kameel Ahmady is a Kurdish academic with British-Iranian nationality who was arrested by Iranian authorities in August 2019 and released in November 2019 on a $40,000 bail. The reasons for Ahmady's arrest were not revealed by Iran.
Ahmadi was born in Naghadeh and has been a British citizen since the 1990s.[1] He is an anthropologist who studied at the University of Kent and in 2015, undertook the first comprehensive study of Female Genital Mutilation in Iran as well as some other topics such as Child marriage, Temporary marriage, white Marriage/Cohabitation. In 2009 he also published a travel guidebook for the Kurdish regions of Turkey.[1]
Ahmady was working as an anthropologist in Tehran when he was arrested in August 2019. According to the Kurdistan Human Rights Network, Ahmady's home and car were searched by security officials three times on the same day, and some of his belongings were confiscated. KHRN also reported that Ahmady had been working on two studies before he arrested, into LGBT communities and identity and ethnicity in Iran.[2]
Ahmady's family told Radio Farda that prosecutors refused to tell her what he was charged with after he had been taken to Evin prison.[3] Judiciary spokesman Gholamhossein Esmaeli claimed that the arrest was due to a “connection with foreign countries and institutions affiliated with foreign agencies”.[1]
In September, Radio Farda reported that Ahmady's detention had been extended by another month.[4] Ahmadi was released in November 2019 on bail of five billion rials, or about $40,000.[1]
Ahmady's arrest comes in the context of the imprisonment of other British-Iranian dual nationals on charges of espionage, including Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and Anousheh Ashouri.[5] Aras Amiri, an Iranian national with permanent residency in the UK, was sentenced to 10 years for spying in 2018.[6]
References
- ^ a b c d Kurdistan24. "British-Kurdish academic released on $40K bail from notorious Iranian prison". Kurdistan24. Retrieved 2019-11-22.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ KHRN (2019-08-14). "Iran: A British - Iranian Researcher Arrested". KHRN. Retrieved 2019-11-22.
- ^ "British-Iranian academic arrested in Tehran, his wife says". Middle East Eye. Retrieved 2019-11-22.
- ^ "Iran Extends Detention Of British-Iranian Researcher". RFE/RL. Retrieved 2019-11-22.
- ^ "Iran jails another British national on espionage charges". Middle East Eye. Retrieved 2019-11-22.
- ^ "British Council worker loses appeal against 10-year sentence in Iran". Middle East Eye. Retrieved 2019-11-22.
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