Agents Charged in Journalist’s Death
A judge has charged two Iranian intelligence agents with involvement in the death in custody of a photojournalist from Canada, the Tehran prosecutor’s office said.
Judge Javad Esmaeili called Zahra Kazemi’s death last month a “semi-premeditated murder,” according to a statement read to Associated Press by a prosecution official.
After 77 hours of interrogation, Kazemi, an Iranian-born resident of Montreal, was rushed to an intensive-care unit in a hospital controlled by hard-line Revolutionary Guards, where she died 14 days later.
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