Iran's Judiciary Denies Knowledge Of Ecologist's Prison 'Suicide'

A year after the Islamic Republic authorities claimed that a prominent Iranian-Canadian environmentalist and university professor had committed suicide in prison; the Judiciary spokesman says that he does not know anything about the suicide. Last January the intelligence organ of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard arrested several ecologists, chief among them Kavous Seyed Emami who days later died in prison under suspicious circumstances. Responding to a question at his weekly press briefing on Sunday...