Zahra Kazemi, Canada / Iran
The Canadian/Iranian photojournalist Zahra Kazemi was murdered in Tehran in July 2003 after being jailed for photographing a student protest outside Evin prison. Kazemi's body was buried in Shiraz, southern Iran, on July 22, 2003, contrary to the wishes of her son, Stéphane Hachemi. In April 2007, a former Iranian military doctor revealed that he had treated Kazemi for injuries consistent with torture. In November Iran’s Supreme Court ordered a new investigation into her death. (The Iranian government had previously claimed that her death was an accident, despite evidence that she was brutally tortured and possibly even raped while in custody.) Her family was reportedly “very skeptical” about the prospects of the new investigation. To date, nobody in Iran has been brought to justice for Kazemi’s murder. A show trial in 2004 ended with the acquittal of an Iranian security agent.

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