maandag, februari 09, 2004
Iranian court officials have submitted files on slain Iranian-Canadian journalist Zahra Kazemi to Nobel Peace Prize laureate Shirin Ebadi, three months after she took the case.
The Yas-e-No daily newspaper reported that despite attempts by Ebadi, a qualified lawyer, and her associates to retrieve the 1,000-page dossier following the opening of the case on October 7, court officials said the file was unavailable. The dossier was apparently given to a committee set up by Iran's judiciary chief to pursue Kazemi's case. Ebadi announced in November that she had agreed to represent Kazemi's family in the trial of an intelligence agent charged with her killing.
Kazemi was arrested in June for taking photographs outside Tehran's notorious Evin prison. She died in hospital on July 10 from a brain hemorrhage caused by a blow to the head. Intelligence ministry agent Mohammad Reza Aghdam Ahmadi has been charged with "participation in a quasi-intentional murder", in a trial that has sparked a political feud between the courts and the intelligence service.
The trial opened in October, but the judiciary has not fixed a new date for a resumption of the hearings. When the accused allegedly began questioning Kazemi, the photographer was in good health, but following an interrogation she was admitted to hospital, the prosecution noted. The intelligence service argues that Kazemi was fatally hurt while in the hands of the judiciary, which is controlled by the rival conservative camp.
Bron: AP.
The Yas-e-No daily newspaper reported that despite attempts by Ebadi, a qualified lawyer, and her associates to retrieve the 1,000-page dossier following the opening of the case on October 7, court officials said the file was unavailable. The dossier was apparently given to a committee set up by Iran's judiciary chief to pursue Kazemi's case. Ebadi announced in November that she had agreed to represent Kazemi's family in the trial of an intelligence agent charged with her killing.
Kazemi was arrested in June for taking photographs outside Tehran's notorious Evin prison. She died in hospital on July 10 from a brain hemorrhage caused by a blow to the head. Intelligence ministry agent Mohammad Reza Aghdam Ahmadi has been charged with "participation in a quasi-intentional murder", in a trial that has sparked a political feud between the courts and the intelligence service.
The trial opened in October, but the judiciary has not fixed a new date for a resumption of the hearings. When the accused allegedly began questioning Kazemi, the photographer was in good health, but following an interrogation she was admitted to hospital, the prosecution noted. The intelligence service argues that Kazemi was fatally hurt while in the hands of the judiciary, which is controlled by the rival conservative camp.
Bron: AP.
# posted by Jan-Edward : 16:38
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