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Interview: Elika Ashoori on Her Father’s Ten Year Prison Sentence in Iran
“His interrogators were telling him that we have gangs who could ‘stab your daughter or wife in London.’”
“His interrogators were telling him that we have gangs who could ‘stab your daughter or wife in London.'”
On June 22nd, Merion West’s Kevin Turner was joined by Elika Ashoori, daughter of Anoosheh Ashoori, a British-Iranian dual citizen. Her father is among 12 British nationals currently being held by the Iranian government on spying allegations.
His story has also been covered in the August 27th, 2019 edition of The Independent.
Mr. Ashoori, a civil engineer with no history of any political activity, went to Iran for two weeks to check on his mother who recently had a knee surgery. One day in the market, Iranian security officers picked him up and threw him in the back of a van.
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