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Maryam Rajavi calls for concrete steps by Ottawa as fresh evidence of Zahra Kazemi's murder surfaces |
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Saturday, 02 April 2005 |
 Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, President-elect of the Iranian Resistance, called
on the international community and the Canadian government to take
practical steps against the mullahs' regime for the gruesome murder of
Canadian journalist Zahra Kazemi. Her statement came after a press
conference Friday by Canadian Foreign Minister Pierre Pettigrew, in
which he talked about new revelations of the torture and rape of Kazemi
while she was being held in Tehran's notorious Evin Prison.
"This new evidence only strengthens our position and confirms that this
was not an accident," Pettigrew said. "Iran is continuing to disregard
the most fundamental human rights, and this must stop," he added.
The Iranian Resistance's President-elect described the heinous
maltreatment of Ms. Kazemi as "the tip of the iceberg" of human rights
violations in Iran. "If the interrogators and torturers deal with a
Canadian journalist in this way, it is not hard to imagine what they do
to political prisoners, especially women."
Mrs. Rajavi called on the international community to develop a firm
policy and take transparent practical steps to investigate this brutal
crime. She said Canada must take the lead in this regard. The time has
come to refer the human rights record of the mullahs' regime, in
particular its execution of 120,000 political prisoners, hundreds of
terrorist attacks outside of Iran, and brutal suppression of women and
religious minorities, to the UN Security Council, she said. Those
responsible for these crimes must be tried by the International
Criminal Court.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
April 2, 2005 |
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