kavous, the father of friend of mine, was arrested out of the blue.his hour. a prominent academic, believed to be a dual iranian-canadian citizen, has died in prison after being arrested last month. today his son, raam emami,po ed on twitter that his father was arrested on the 24th of january, at "the news of his death was released to my mom on friday. i still can't believe this." >> erdbrink: i couldn't believe what i was hearing. i thought it was far-fetched that he would be a spy, but now kavous was found dead in his cell. i asked his son to come over. the intelligence services have forbidden him to talk about the case. >> they said tt he had hung himself in his cell. and they showed my uncle some marks on his neck, on the back of his neck, and he had some bruises over his body, too. they said, "oh, this is probably when, you know, he was hanging he probably hit somewhere." um... >> erdbrink: but wasn't your father in, like, a high-security prison? >> you know, that's the thing. he was, you know, if he was such an important person in a high-securit