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Kazemi's case will test Iranian reformers: Graham
The Iranian Student Movement Up to the Minute Reports ^ | July 17, 2003 | JEFF SALLOT and INGRID PERITZ

Posted on 11/01/2003 7:53:36 AM PST by Pan_Yans Wife

Kazemi's case will test Iranian reformers: Graham

By JEFF SALLOT and INGRID PERITZ From Thursday's Globe and Mail

Ottawa and Montreal — The Iranian government's admission that Montreal photojournalist Zahra Kazemi died of a skull fracture suffered while in custody provoked Canadian demands yesterday that those responsible be identified and prosecuted.

"If crimes have been committed, we are demanding of the Iranian government to punish those who committed the crime, and we will push that case," Prime Minister Jean Chrétien said.

"It's completely unacceptable that a journalist goes there to do professional work and be threatened that way," he told a news conference in Shawinigan, Que.

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