Four years after downing of Flight PS 752, families say Iran regime still trying to silence them

Due to the sensitive and/or legal subject matter of some of the content on globalnews.ca, we reserve the ability to disable comments from time to time.As we approach four years since the downing of PS752, families say they are still facing intimidation from the Iran regime to stay silent. One Canadian activist tells Global News his mother has been banned from leaving Iran for six months.

While families deal with the ongoing sorrow, the Iranian regime has ramped up its campaign to try to silence those who speak out for the victims of Flight PS 752. Seyed Hassan Ghazizadeh Hashemi is believed to have visited Canada after being spotted in the background of a TV news report on Quebec tourism and then caught on video visiting Casa Loma in Toronto in August 2023.

Canada is deeply concerned about new reports of intimidation of family members of the victims of Flight PS752. We call on Iran to immediately cease its campaign of harassment and intimidation of these families.Kaveh Shahrooz, a Toronto-based human rights lawyer, activist and senior fellow with the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, who has been providing legal advice to the victims’ families, says Iran’s regime “has a long history of trying to intimidate members of the diaspora.

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