Iran - Impunity keeps claiming victims, ten years after Zahra Kazemi's still unsolved death in detention

Reporters without borders

Reporters Without Borders pays tribute to Canadian-Iranian photographer Zahra Kazemi on the tenth anniversary of her death in detention in Tehran as a result of mistreatment, and reiterates its condemnation of the total impunity enjoyed by her torturers. They include Saeed Mortazavi, former Tehran prosecutor-general and one of Supreme Leader and “Predator of Press Freedom” Ali Khamenei's most notorious lieutenants, who has been guilty of many crimes against news providers. “Zahra Kazemi (...)

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