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  • Kazemi beaten on head with shoe by Iranian official: French newspaper

    07/17/2003 1:53:03 PM PDT · by knighthawk · 17 replies · 264+ views
    myTELUS ^ | July 17 2003
    MONTREAL (CP) - A Montreal-based photo journalist who died of a fractured skull in an Iranian hospital was beaten about the head with a shoe by a high-ranking Iranian official, the French newspaper Liberation reported Thursday. The newspaper, quoting unnamed sources, said Said Mortazavi, an official with the ruling Islamic government in Tehran, used his shoe to deliver the blows to Zahra Kazemi. He had apparently been questioning Kazemi, who had been arrested for taking pictures of an Iranian prison. Kazemi fell into a coma and was transported to a detention centre run by revolutionary guards before she was taken...