Meimanat Hosseini-Chavoshi

Meimanat Hosseini-Chavoshi (Persian: میمنت حسینی چاوشی) is an Australian-Iranian demographer and a Research Fellow at the Australian National University. She won Iran's Book of the Year Award for the book The Fertility Transition in Iran: Revolution and Reproduction (with Peter McDonald and Mohammad Jalal Abbasi-Shavazi).[1][2][3] From December 2018 to January 2019 she was detained in Iran for more than a month, after it was alleged that she had been trying to "infiltrate" Iranian institutions.[4][5]

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References

  1. ^ "Meimenat Hosseini-Chavoshi". ANU School of Demography. 30 March 2012. Retrieved 1 December 2018.
  2. ^ "DR Meimanat Hosseini-Chavoshi - The University of Melbourne". findanexpert.unimelb.edu.au. Retrieved 1 December 2018.
  3. ^ "Springer book awarded prestigious prize in Iran". springer.com. Retrieved 1 December 2018.
  4. ^ "Australian Meimanat Hosseini Chavoshi feared to be among growing number of foreign nationals held in Iran". ABC News. 8 October 2019. Archived from the original on 13 October 2019.
  5. ^ "Lawyer Says Australian-Based Population Expert Released From Iranian Detention". RFE/RL. 27 January 2019. Archived from the original on 16 October 2019.


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