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Judiciary Admits its Officials had a Hand in Canadian's Death
August 11, 2003
AFP
Yahoo News
TEHRAN -- Iran's hardline judiciary admitted for the first time that individual officials may have had a hand in the death of Iranian-Canadian photojournalist Zahra Kazemi, but insisted all the evidence suggested they were acting without orders.
"The information made available to the investigating magistrate by the presidential commission of inquiry has allowed us to advance the investigation, particularly concerning the journalist's movements in the crucial hours and the blow to her head," the judiciary's official spokesman Gholam Hossein Elham told the Iranian Student News Agency.
"No institution is under suspicion, it is individual officials that are facing charges. We have not concluded that official agencies or bodies committed any crime, it was individuals who broke the law," said Elham.
On July 26, the prosecutor's office announced that it had arrested five people in connection with Kazem's death, two of whom have been subsequently released.
But Elham's comments marked the first admission by the judiciary that murder charges might be pressed in the affair which has rocked Tehran's relations with Ottawa.
Previously the conservative-controlled body had insisted there was no evidence to suggest the brain haemmorrhage which killed the Canadian journalist was the result of foul play.
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