Canadian-Iranian academic Homa Hoodfar flew back into Montreal on Thursday, after authorities in Iran released her from custody.<br /><br /> She had been detained since June, accused of acting against national security.<br /><br /> “I didn’t feel that I would be released until I was in the jet and the jet was in the air because in Iran nothing is complete until it is complete,” the anthropologist told reporters. <br /><br /> <br /><br /><br /> Freed from prison in Iran, Concordia Professor Homa Hoodfar expected in Montreal Thursday morning https://t.co/ioxnV1vnTJ— Montreal Gazette (@mtlgazette) 29 septembre 2016<br /> <br /><br /> <br /><br /><br /> A campaign was launched to secure freedom for the 65-year-old expert on gender and Islam who was in Iran to visit relatives and for study purposes. <br /><br /> Barred from leaving the country in March, she was freed from custody for humanitarian reasons including illness, Iran said.<br /><br /> Iran’s Revolutionary Guards have arrested at least seven dual-nationality citizens or expatriates visiting the country over the past year, the highest such number in acknowledged detention in recent years.<br />
