Key UN human-rights experts Tuesday expressed their 'profound' concern about Iranian legal proceedings in the death of Iranian-Canadian photojournali

National Post: "GENEVA -- Key UN human-rights experts Tuesday expressed their 'profound' concern about Iranian legal proceedings in the death of Iranian-Canadian photojournalist Zahra Kazemi.
'Many reports indicate that the proceedings did not meet international standards of fair trial because key evidence that might have incriminated judiciary officials, the prosecutor's office as well as the intelligence ministry were ignored by the court,' said a UN statement.
The UN experts - specialists in free speech, torture and independent judges - said Iranian authorities failed to ensure an open trial and the independent functioning of the judiciary.
The statement noted that journalists and other foreign observers were barred from full access to the courtroom from the third day of the trial.
The UN experts said they feared Iranian authorities 'are favouring a climate of impunity for law-enforcement officials and setting the ground for the recurrence of similar human-rights violations in the future.'
'They are strong statements, very negative comments about the situation in Iran,' Kazemi's son, Stephan Hachemi, said Tuesday in Montreal.
'They denounced clearly the coverup,' he said of the key UN members who made the report. 'In other words, what they are saying is that there is a coverup in Iran.'
Kazemi was arrested in June 2003 while working outside Evin prison in Tehran. She died of a fractured skull and brain hemorrhage while in detention last July.
A Tehran court Saturday cleared secret agent Mohammad Reza Aghdam Ahmadi, the sole defendant, of killing Kazemi.
An Iranian judiciary statement released Monday said Ahmadi was acquitted 'due to lack of sufficient evidence,' the official Islamic Republic News Agency reported.
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