Iran orders new probe into death of Iranian-Canadian photo journalist
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Iran's Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered a new investigation into the 2003 death of a jailed Iranian-Canadian photojournalist who a judge ruled had died from an accidental fall despite earlier findings that she was beaten to death in custody.
Zahra Kazemi, a Canadian journalist of Iranian origin, died on July 11, 2003 after being arrested days earlier while taking photographs outside Tehran's Evin prison. Iranian authorities initially said Kazemi died of a stroke, but a committee appointed by then-President Mohammad Khatami, a reformist, found that she died of a fractured skull and brain hemorrhage caused by a ''physical attack.'' (AP)
