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  • IRAN: MAN ACQUITTED FOR MURDER OF CANADIAN JOURNALIST

    11/16/2005 9:30:08 PM PST · by HAL9000 · 15 replies · 485+ views
    adnkronos ^ | November 16, 2005
    Tehran, 16 Nov. (AKI) - The sole defendant in the trial for the death of Canadian photo-reporter, Zahra Kazemi in Tehran in July 2003, has been acquitted by an appeals court. The court has absolved Reza Ahmadi, "because the inquiries carried out to date on other accused have not been satisfactory, it is not possible to condemn one of the co-defendants". Kazemi, 54, a Canadian of Iranian origin, was arrested in June 2003 after taking photos of demonstrations outside a Tehran prison. She died in a Tehran hospital on 10 July 2003 after falling into a coma, having received...