Canada's foreign minister slammed Tehran Tuesday for turning a dialogue over a Canadian citizen who died in Iranian custody into "a farce." The Canadian government has accused Iran's hard-line courts of covering up the true circumstances of Iranian-born photographer Zahra Kazemi's death last year in order to protect senior judiciary officials implicated in her murder.
"We've tried dialogue with the Iranian government but it shockingly has turned into a farce, this situation around Madame Kazemi," Pettigrew told reporters after meeting Belgian Foreign Minister Karl de Gucht. "Certainly we are sharing our outrage at the way the Iranian government and the judiciary system has treated this citizen. We lose no opportunity to raise it."What we want is to know what has happened in that jail; we've asked for the body to be returned to Canada so that we could autopsy it. They say it's an accident, that she fell. Well, we'll know. When you have the body, you know those things," he added.
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