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Iran Focus
 Tehran, Iran, Jul. 04 – A hospital belonging to
the Revolutionary Guards in the Iranian capital is refusing entry for women
not wearing the head-to-toe covering known as chador, according to local
residents.
Security guards outside the main entrance of Baqiyatollah Hospital were seen turning away women who
were not wearing the chador.
Canadian Photojournalist Zahra Kazemi died in Baqiyatollah Hospital in July 2003, after being taken
there from Evin Prison where she lost her
consciousness under torture.
Shahram Azam, a physician
who examined Kazemi on her arrival at the hospital,
fled to Canada last year and has revealed
gruesome details about the torture inflicted on the journalist and the way
hospital authorities covered up the issue
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