OTTAWA, Nov. 3 (UPI) -- A filmmaker based out of Canada is facing a closed trial in Iran for her work on a documentary about repression during the Iran-Iraq war.
Doctoral student Mehrnoushe Solouki, who was arrested in Iran in February, said even her own father will not be allowed to attended her upcoming trial this month, The Toronto Globe and Mail reported Saturday.
Arrested while working on the film about the 1980s conflict, Solouki is being tried on charges she attempted to spread propaganda through the documentary.
Solouki has already spent a month in Iran's Evin prison, the site where Iranian-Canadian photographer Zahra Kazemi was killed in 2004.
A Web site detailing her precarious situation has already been created and the journalist-rights organization, Reporters Without Borders, has also become actively involved in her cause.
Solouki's friend Denis McCready said his fellow filmmaker is undergoing psychological stress from the entire situation.
"Sometimes it's OK," he said of Solouki's imprisonment in Iran, "sometimes not."
