[news] Censoring the Dead

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By Naomi Klein and Aaron Maté | No Logo | June 15, 2005 Even after her death, it seems the attacks on Zahra Kazemi will not end. It was only two months ago that Canadians were stunned by new evidence that the Montreal photojournalist was tortured to death while in Iranian custody. Kazemi was arrested in June 2003 while taking photographs outside of a prison in Iran, the country of her birth. To punish her for this transgression, Kazemi¹s captors raped and beat her, according to a doctor who fled Iran to tell the story. Close to two years later, there are new attempts to cover Kazemi¹s lens, to prevent her photographs from reaching public eyes - only now the censorship is happening inside her adopted country of Canada.

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/6/16/94141/8590