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To: cripplecreek

I think you’re referring to Zahra Kazemi


9 posted on 04/15/2012 4:07:39 PM PDT by nuconvert ( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
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To: nuconvert; Arec Barrwin
Thank you.

Zahra Kazemi

Zahra "Ziba" Kazemi-Ahmadabadi (1948 – July 11, 2003) was an Iranian-Canadian freelance photographer, residing in Montreal, Canada, who died in the custody of Iranian officials following her arrest.

Although Iranian authorities insist that her death was accidental and that she died of a stroke while being interrogated, Shahram Azam, a former military staff physician who used his purported knowledge of Kazemi's case for seeking asylum in Canada in 2004, has stated that he examined Kazemi's body and observed that Kazemi showed obvious signs of torture, including a skull fracture, broken nose, signs of rape and severe abdominal bruising. Iranian officials claimed that Azam had been afflicted with mental health issues and that he had been discharged before Kazemi's death.

15 posted on 04/15/2012 4:18:39 PM PDT by cripplecreek (What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
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