 Pourzand also reported the funeral live by telephone for a Los Angeles-based radio station.In 2000, Pourzand's wife Mehrangiz Kar, also a critic of the Iranian government, was arrested for her participation in a conference at Berlin's Heinrich Böll Foundation titled "Iran after the elections", at which various reform proposals were debated; she ultimately served a 52-day prison term.Pourzand's own arrest soon followed.