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Ex-Tehran police chief linked to rights abuses spotted working out at Toronto-area gym

Then-Tehran police chief General Morteza Talaei in 2002, left, and at a Richmond Hill, Ont., gym last year. Photo by Morteza Nikoubazl / Reuters // Abdollah Abdi / Abdimedia
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Wednesday 2024/09/04 - 14:43News Code:216

Morteza Talaei headed the police force in Iran's capital city when Canadian photojournalist Zahra Kazemi was arrested and tortured to death in a Tehran prison

Iranian ex-patriates and human-rights groups are voicing outrage after evidence emerged that Canada had issued a visitor visa to a former Tehran police chief linked to various human-rights abuses.

Morteza Talaei also headed the capital city’s police force when Canadian photojournalist Zahra Kazemi was arrested and tortured to death in a Tehran prison.

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