Liberals have created a lame Canada. Weak internationally, to the extent that even when a tinpot dictatorship bent on human rights abominations rapes, tortures, and murders an innocent woman from Canada who had the audacity to take a photograph of something in Iran, Canada has to respond by sucking up to them.
Liberal Canada gets slapped, then liberals kiss the hand that slapped them.
What kind of foreign policy is this? It’s not “soft”, it’s “disgraceful”. Liberals aren’t just “girliemen”, they’re treasonous.
Fri, April 1, 2005
Feds silent on torture
DETAILS OF KAZEMI’S DEATH KNOWN 5 MONTHS AGOBy MARIA MCCLINTOCK, OTTAWA BUREAU
FEDERAL government officials had first-hand evidence five months ago that Montreal photojournalist Zahra Kazemi had been tortured in Iran but remained mum on the critical development in the case, lawyers for her family confirmed yesterday. Kazemi, 54, was an Iranian-born dual citizen arrested after taking pictures outside a Tehran prison in June 2003. She died several days later and her case has made international headlines ever since.
Foreign Affairs Minister Pierre Pettigrew told reporters yesterday his officials met with Iranian Dr. Shahram Azam in November, but didn’t say why the feds didn’t go public with the information.
His spokesman, Sebastien Theberge, said it’s not up to the Canadian government to release the information about new developments in the case.
Calling the account of Kazemi’s injuries “gruesome,” Pettigrew said Azam’s evidence backs the government’s original assessment that the woman was murdered.
Ongoing efforts by the feds to push the Iranian government for an international criminal trial have fallen on deaf ears, he said.
Azam, who was fast-tracked through the Canadian refugee system and arrived here Monday, outlined the horrific injuries he saw on Kazemi when she was brought to the emergency room at a Tehran army hospital days before she died.
Azam said Kazemi suffered numerous injuries, including a broken nose, skull fracture, multiple bruises and several broken fingers. There was also evidence of rape and flogging.
Asked why he chose to go public with the evidence, Azam said it was his duty as a doctor to come forward.
“I could see this was torture,” said Dr. Azam through an interpreter.
Lawyer John Terry, who is representing Kazemi’s son Stephan, said the pair first interviewed Azam in Sweden last November to verify his story and the Canadian government interviewed him a week later.
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