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Posted: Wed Feb 25, 2004 10:35 pm Post subject: Iranian Lashed to Death in Iranian Jail |
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Iranian Lashed to Death in Iranian Jail
http://www.mytelus.com/news/article.do?pageID=cbc/vancouver_home&articleID=1537260
February 25, 2004
CBC News
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VANCOUVER -- There's been a tragic turn of events for the family of three Iranian sisters who launched a lawsuit against the federal government because of alleged bungling by Canada Immigration officials.
The women, who now live in North Vancouver, claimed they had been beaten with chains in an Iranian prison while they waited for Canadian visas that had already been granted.
Once they arrived in Canada, the three had asked the immigration minister to grant a "visa to safety" for their brother, who was sentenced to a lashing.
But Immigration Canada rejected pleas for the young man's release. And in a letter to the women's lawyer, Richard Kurland, a federal official said the brother knew the laws of his country when he broke them.
Kurland says the brother was beaten last week, with tragic consequences.
"Mr. Mofidi died at 1 a.m. Tehran time yesterday (Tuesday)," he says. "He had been released after being lashed by Tehran prison officials on Thursday."
The official cause of Mofidi's death was a heart attack.
Kurland is requesting a formal investigation by the Iranian government and by the UN for allowing Mofidi's lashing when he was already ill with a lung infection.
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