IRAN: Iran's Nobel winner vows journalist's killer will face justice
Shirin Ebadi, Nobel Laureate, vows to bring journalist’s murderer to justice
South China Morning PostMonday, July 26, 2004
Iranian Nobel Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi vowed not to rest until the killer of Canadian-Iranian journalist Zahra Kazemi was identified, after Iran's judiciary acquitted the sole defendant in the case.
"I will pursue this case until my last breath," said the human rights lawyer, who is representing the family of Kazemi, who lived in Canada and died on an assignment.
Kazemi's death in detention last July after being arrested for taking photographs of Tehran's Evin prison has severely strained Iran's ties with Canada - which withdrew its ambassador this month - and thrown an international spotlight on human rights abuses and judicial process in Iran.
The reform-minded government, human rights groups and lawyers for the Kazemi family had long said the intelligence agent charged with killing her was a scapegoat and accused the powerful and conservative judiciary of covering up evidence pointing to the involvement of judiciary officials in her death.
"The Iranian government from the beginning believed the man on trial was innocent and the court came to the same conclusion," Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi said yesterday.
Speaking outside the Tehran court which on Saturday cleared Intelligence Ministry agent Mohammad Reza Aqdam of the "semi-intentional murder" of Kazemi, Ms Ebadi said key testimony had been ignored.
"We introduced some witnesses and called on the court to summon them and to listen to their comments but none of them were taken into consideration," she said. "I'm sorry, because if they had been heeded those who committed this crime ... would have been identified."
Iran's judiciary, which brought Mr Aqdam's trial to an end last Sunday after just three court hearings, appeared to be moving quickly to wrap up the case.
Announcing its decision to clear Mr Aqdam due to lack of evidence, it also said "blood money" to Kazemi's family would be paid from the state treasury.
But Ms Ebadi said she would appeal for a higher court to consider all the ignored testimony. She has threatened to take the case to an international court.
Kazemi, 54, was interrogated for three days in Evin prison before being sent to a military hospital where she slipped into a coma and died.
South China Morning PostMonday, July 26, 2004
Iranian Nobel Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi vowed not to rest until the killer of Canadian-Iranian journalist Zahra Kazemi was identified, after Iran's judiciary acquitted the sole defendant in the case.
"I will pursue this case until my last breath," said the human rights lawyer, who is representing the family of Kazemi, who lived in Canada and died on an assignment.
Kazemi's death in detention last July after being arrested for taking photographs of Tehran's Evin prison has severely strained Iran's ties with Canada - which withdrew its ambassador this month - and thrown an international spotlight on human rights abuses and judicial process in Iran.
The reform-minded government, human rights groups and lawyers for the Kazemi family had long said the intelligence agent charged with killing her was a scapegoat and accused the powerful and conservative judiciary of covering up evidence pointing to the involvement of judiciary officials in her death.
"The Iranian government from the beginning believed the man on trial was innocent and the court came to the same conclusion," Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi said yesterday.
Speaking outside the Tehran court which on Saturday cleared Intelligence Ministry agent Mohammad Reza Aqdam of the "semi-intentional murder" of Kazemi, Ms Ebadi said key testimony had been ignored.
"We introduced some witnesses and called on the court to summon them and to listen to their comments but none of them were taken into consideration," she said. "I'm sorry, because if they had been heeded those who committed this crime ... would have been identified."
Iran's judiciary, which brought Mr Aqdam's trial to an end last Sunday after just three court hearings, appeared to be moving quickly to wrap up the case.
Announcing its decision to clear Mr Aqdam due to lack of evidence, it also said "blood money" to Kazemi's family would be paid from the state treasury.
But Ms Ebadi said she would appeal for a higher court to consider all the ignored testimony. She has threatened to take the case to an international court.
Kazemi, 54, was interrogated for three days in Evin prison before being sent to a military hospital where she slipped into a coma and died.
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