Canadian Iranian human rights activist Hamed Esmaeilion — who lost his wife and child in the destruction of Flight PS752 by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps — says his parents have now been banned from leaving Iran, despite their permanent resident status in Canada.
In an interview with CBC News, Esmaeilion also accused Iran’s Intelligence Ministry of harassing and intimidating his family members in Iran with repeated phone calls.
“The amount of pressure that they apply on families, it’s inhumane,” he said. “It’s brutal what they’re doing.”
Esmaeilion’s wife and nine-year-old daughter were killed in January 2020 when the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) shot down the Ukrainian passenger plane
