This article was last updated on April 16, 2022
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The Supreme Court of Canada is scheduled to determine whether or not the son of a murdered Canadian photojournalist, Zahra Kazemi, can sue the Iranian government. The top court has arranged to hear an appeal from Kazemi’s son, Stephan Hashemi, who claims that he has the right to sue the Iranian government for supposedly killing his mother and refusing to return her body after she was imprisoned. As per routine, the court did not provide any justification for its decision of granting his request for leave to appeal. The case is anticipated to once again surely ratchet up the rhetoric surrounding shattered diplomatic relations between Canada and Iran.
Kazemi, an Iranian-born Canadian citizen, was reportedly taking pictures of a protest staged in Tehran in 2003, when she was approached by authorities for an entanglement resulting in her arrest. Reports confirm that Kazemi was detained, tortured and raped in Tehran’s notorious Evin prison. Giving up to the cruelties, Kazemi passed away in the hospital to which her jailers had transferred her.
The physician who treat Kazemi at the emergency room of the hospital fled the country shortly after her controversial death and has sought asylum in Canada since. The physician has openly stated several times, in complete detail, regarding the condition Kazemi was brought to her, elaborating that the 54-year-old was filled with injuries head-to-toe. Even though Hashemi tried his best to campaign for bringing his mother’s body to Canada, she was buried by Iranian authorities in Iran soon after her death.
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