Iranian doctor reports journalist Kazemi horribly tortured, raped

Shahram Azam, a doctor who examined Iranian-Canadian journalist Zahra Kazemi shortly before her death, has received asylum in Canada and given a shocking account of her wounds. Kazemi died in 2003 after four days of "interrogation" following her arrest for photographing a protest against the arrest of political prisoners. An Iranian intelligence officer was charged with her death but later acquitted, the court finding that Kazemi died in a fall after being weakened by a hunger strike. Obviously, the doctor's claims dispute that finding. The Globe and Mail has more on the diplomatic fallout.

Posted by Warrior Tang at March 31, 2005 01:49 PM

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