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| Doctor: Journalist tortured prior to dying | |
| 2005-03-31 | |
| STOCKHOLM, Sweden, March 31 (UPI) -- An Iranian doctor, who has lived in Sweden, says Canadian journalist Zahra Kazemi was savagely beaten and raped before she died in Iranian custody in 2003.Shahram Azam, an emergency-room doctor who examined Kazemi before she died, said the woman was also tortured, the Globe and Mail reported in a dispatch from Stockholm. The doctor, who recently received political asylum in Canada, had been a physician on the staff of the Iranian Defense Ministry. He said he examined Kazemi, a 54-year-old Iranian-born dual citizen, at a Tehran hospital on June 27, 2003, four days after she was arrested while photographing a demonstration outside Tehran's Evin prison. His account of Kazemi's condition in the days before her death, the first by a medical eye witness, confirms she was tortured far more brutally than even critics of Iran's hard-line theocratic regime had believed, the newspaper said. "Her entire body carried strange marks of violence," Azam said. Azam was scheduled Thursday to give an account of his examination at a news conference in Ottawa. Canada has tried to pressure the Iranian regime, without much success, into reopening the case.
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| Posted by:Steve |
| #9 Barbara, Mrs. Davis, all...well, we could send our B-52s. But wait we don't have any. And I don't think any western power other than the US would have any ability to do anything militarily. I don't want to start a debate on our pathetic defense spending because I will just agree with you. I just want to point out that as a small to middle power are options are limited. BUT, (because you good folks are slagging Canada here) I seem to recall the US having a little hostage situation some years back that took some time to resolve... Something to think about though: Iran obviously would not like us to support any sanctions or military strike (by the US) given our past (dumb-ass) record. So guess on who's side we might just support this time.... |
| Posted by: Canuck 2005-03-31 11:51:39 PM |
| #8 Canada's not going to recall their ambassador. Seems he's been instructed to go to the front door of Khatemi's office every morning, and stamp his feet really hard on the doormat... |
| Posted by: Pappy 2005-03-31 8:07:25 PM |
| #7 Ship - that's why you're not Canadian. ;-) |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2005-03-31 5:33:43 PM |
| #6 Canada needs to bond to it's citizens better. I'd want some sort of blood here. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2005-03-31 5:23:25 PM |
| #5 Blame canada! |
| Posted by: Cartman 2005-03-31 4:42:44 PM |
| #4 What will Canada do now? Blame it on America. |
| Posted by: Laurence of the Rats 2005-03-31 4:39:07 PM |
| #3 How about a sternly worded letter? Works for me. |
| Posted by: Kofi Annan 2005-03-31 3:30:04 PM |
| #2 eh? |
| Posted by: Mrs. Davis 2005-03-31 3:29:14 PM |
| #1 Uh, that would be NOTHING. Why do you ask? |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2005-03-31 3:04:31 PM |