Evidence record: Zahra Kazemi
Zahra Kazemi was an Iranian-Canadian photojournalist who died after detention in Iran in 2003. Human Rights Watch describes detention while photographing outside Evin Prison and says a parliamentary investigation attributed death to a severe blow to the head in custody. [1]
Human Rights Watch reports that the low-ranking intelligence official tried over her death was acquitted in July 2004. The earlier biography’s unqualified assignment of responsibility and detailed assault descriptions are not established by this source and have been removed. [1]
Kazemi (Estate) v. Islamic Republic of Iran, 2014 SCC 62, concerns state immunity in a Canadian civil action over alleged torture and death. It is not a criminal conviction or a judgment independently establishing every underlying allegation. [1]
Sources and limits
Human Rights Watch, 23 May 2005 · Supreme Court of Canada, 2014 SCC 62
The linked reporting is not a complete court or medical file. Allegations, official charges and independent findings are distinguished rather than combined.