Today's Globe and Mail contains explosive information from a doctor who treated Zahra Kazemi about how the Iranian-Canadian journalist was treated in Iran. Among the revelations of doctor Shahram Azam, who recently defected to Canada:
- Kazemi's body body had strange markings all over it.
- She had massive bruising around her head and ears, her skull had been fractured and her nose broken. Also, two fingers were broken and were missing fingernails.
- She had severe abdominal bruising and showed evidence of being flogged on the legs.
- Signs of a "very brutal rape" were present.
A few weeks ago at a foreign policy conference, I tried to grill Pierre Pettigrew about his weak-kneed handling of the Kazemi affair, which had then been out of the headlines for months and basically all but forgotten. (See paragraph beginning "Critized by a student...") Pettigrew trivialized my query and didn't really care to answer. Maybe now this important story will get the attention it deserves, and some form of retaliatory action will be taken against the barbarians ruling Iran.
# posted by Adam Daifallah : 10:05 AM
