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'Massoud Modabber was half asleep in the back of a car driving from his home in
Melbourne to Canberra when his phone rang.
It was his sister.
"She doesn't cry at all in her life, but her voice was shaking. And the moment
I heard her voice, I knew what [had] happened," he said.
Massoud realised his worst fears had come true: "They arrested her, abducted
her," his distressed sister said.
Officers had taken their mother from her clinic in Iran where she works as a
psychologist, Massoud's sister said.
"She said they have confiscated all the cameras so no-one can see who has done
this, because they come as plain clothes officers …," he recalled.
"That's not an arrest, that's an abduction … arrest is a legal process, not
with four plain clothes officers, and then just gathering the cameras and
everything."
The family didn't know who had taken her, nor where she'd been taken, but
Massoud had a suspicion why: "It might have something to do with my activities
here."
Massoud has been lending support for the uprising in Iran by attending
anti-government protests in Australia.
And he was already on the radar of Iranian authorities, having been a student
activist before he moved to Australia in 2014.
In November, he told
Background Briefing that informants were attending
Australian protests and reporting back to the regime. Protesters' relatives in
Iran were then questioned or targeted by officials.'
Via Clarice Boomshakala Bouvier.
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
