Posted AT 9:02 PM EDT on 01/04/05
Eyewitness feared retribution
Once Dr. Shahram Azam left Iran to tell his story of how Zahra Kazemi was brutally raped and tortured inside a Tehran prison, he knew it wouldn't take long for Iranian agents to track him down.
That made his asylum request to Canada all the more urgent.
"We took his case very seriously," said a Canadian official who worked on the file.
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