11:34 EDT, 12 February 2021
A British-Iranian academic who escaped from Iran on foot in a hazardous getaway through the mountains has been accused of sexual assault and harassment.
Kameel Ahmady, who recently told of his perilous escape from Iran, has reportedly been accused of assaulting a number of women.
Ahmady, who now resides in the UK, has denied the accusations.
British-Iranian academic Kameel Ahmady (pictured) who escaped from Iran on foot in a hazardous getaway through the mountains has been accused of sexual assault and harassment by several women
Four women told The Guardian that Ahmady assaulted them, and others have made allegations of repeated sexual harassment.
Social anthropologist facing nine years in prison escapes
An Iranian judge on 1 February overturned in absentia the appeal of a British-Iranian social anthropologist seeking to overturn a nine-year jail sentence.
But by then Kameel Ahmady, who had been let out of prison on temporary bail pending the appeal decision, had already escaped Iran on foot through the mountains, in snow up to 1.5 metres deep, slipping across the Western border. He eventually made it back to the United Kingdom.
“I am Kurdish by ethnicity and I know some of the routes, but it was very dangerous,” Ahmady told
The Guardian.
Ahmady was convicted in December 2020 of conducting “subversive” research work, according to the semi-official news agency Tasnim. He was accused of “cooperation with the hostile state of USA against the Islamic Republic of Iran” and sentenced to more than nine years in jail and a fine of more than £500,000 (US$684,000).
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