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Kameel Ahmady: British FGM academic jailed in Iran

BBC News Published image captionKameel Ahmady, pictured with his wife Shafaq Rahmani, was arrested in August 2019 A British-Iranian academic has been sentenced to eight years in prison by a court in Tehran, his lawyer says. Kameel Ahmady was convicted of collaborating with a hostile government , Amir Raesian tweeted. One local news agency said he was given a nine-year sentence for illegally receiving funds from institutions trying to topple the Iranian regime. Mr Ahmady is an anthropologist who has studied child marriage, female genital mutilation and sexuality in Iran. The UK government said it was urgently seeking more information. Iran has detained a number of Iranians with dual nationality or foreign permanent residency in recent years, many of them on spying charges.

British researcher jailed for nine years in Iran for his subversive work on FGM and child marriage

British researcher who documented child marriage and female genital mutilation in Iran is jailed for nine years in Tehran for his subversive work Ahmady sentenced by Iran s Revolutionary Court for conducting subversive research work and visiting Israel as a BBC reporter among other charges He said he had been denied access to his lawyer during his detention Ahmady, who was arrested in 2019, will appeal the sentencing, his lawyer says

Kameel Ahmady: Academic imprisoned for promoting homosexuality in Iran

British-Iranian anthropologist Kameel Ahmady was charged with promoting homosexuality . (YouTube/ Kameel Ahmady) British-Iranian anthropologist Kameel Ahmady has been sentenced to eight years in prison for “promoting homosexuality” and conducting “subversive” work in Iran. Ahmady grew up in Iran, before travelling to the UK as a student, and as an anthropologist has studied child marriage, the LGBT+ community and female genital mutilation in Iran, including a book titled Forbidden Tale, a comprehensive research report on LGB people in Iran. The anthropologist explains on his website that his aim in his research is to “provide solutions to these situations, with an emphasis on cultural contexts that address taboo and often obscured issues”.

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