vrijdag, april 01, 2005
Arts: Zahra Kazemi werd gemarteld en verkracht
A doctor employed at Bagheeyehollah Hospital in Tehran (connected with the revolutionary guards) where Zahra Kazemi, deceased Iranian/Canadian photojournalist was transfered before dying, left Iran and for the first time, in an interview with a German publication divulged that the regime's interrogators had brutally gang-raped the photojournalist while she was under questioning and torture.
The German weekly, Die Zeit [in the Thursday, March 31st issue] states that Kazemi was delivered to the hospital directly after undergoing severe torture in prison; she died on July 11th, 2003. Dr. Shahram Azam, who examined Kazemi at the hospital was able to provide a firsthand account. Fifty four year old Kazemi was in a coma when delivered to the hospital in the early hours of June 27th 2003; her body was covered with contusions and as such, she was transfered to the emergency room of Bagheeyehollah Hospital.
Dr. Azam reports that it was quite clear that she had been severely tortured and brutally gang-raped. He went on to say that the regime's authorities (the security forces and the judiciary) continue to play the blame game and therefore at this juncture felt that there was nothing left for him to do but to leave Iran and find a way to inform the world.
Dr. Azam left Iran with his wife and daughter and has moved Canada on asylum for the time being.
Bron: Iran Press News.
Update (Reuters): Iranian officials rejected on Saturday the testimony of a defector who said Canadian photojournalist Zahra Kazemi was tortured and possibly raped before her death in Tehran in July 2003.
They said they had no record of Shahram Azam working as doctor in the hospital where he said he saw evidence of flogging in addition to battered feet, extracted nails and a broken nose. "These allegations made by an Iranian refugee are baseless and false," Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi told the official IRNA news agency.
"Hospital officials have denied this person's name was on the medical staff team," he added. IRNA also quoted Mostafa Naderi, head of the Baghiyatollah hospital where Azam says he examined 54-year-old Kazemi, saying Azam had never worked there.
The German weekly, Die Zeit [in the Thursday, March 31st issue] states that Kazemi was delivered to the hospital directly after undergoing severe torture in prison; she died on July 11th, 2003. Dr. Shahram Azam, who examined Kazemi at the hospital was able to provide a firsthand account. Fifty four year old Kazemi was in a coma when delivered to the hospital in the early hours of June 27th 2003; her body was covered with contusions and as such, she was transfered to the emergency room of Bagheeyehollah Hospital.
Dr. Azam reports that it was quite clear that she had been severely tortured and brutally gang-raped. He went on to say that the regime's authorities (the security forces and the judiciary) continue to play the blame game and therefore at this juncture felt that there was nothing left for him to do but to leave Iran and find a way to inform the world.
Dr. Azam left Iran with his wife and daughter and has moved Canada on asylum for the time being.
Bron: Iran Press News.
Update (Reuters): Iranian officials rejected on Saturday the testimony of a defector who said Canadian photojournalist Zahra Kazemi was tortured and possibly raped before her death in Tehran in July 2003.
They said they had no record of Shahram Azam working as doctor in the hospital where he said he saw evidence of flogging in addition to battered feet, extracted nails and a broken nose. "These allegations made by an Iranian refugee are baseless and false," Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi told the official IRNA news agency.
"Hospital officials have denied this person's name was on the medical staff team," he added. IRNA also quoted Mostafa Naderi, head of the Baghiyatollah hospital where Azam says he examined 54-year-old Kazemi, saying Azam had never worked there.
# posted by Jan-Edward : 13:10
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