This happened in Ottawa, Canada in the Iranian Embassy.
Reporters without Borders has the story.
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Raouf was beaten when he was about to film absentee voting at the embassy in the country’s presidential election. He told Canadian police, who were outside the embassy because of a demonstration by Iranians calling for a vote boycott, what he was going to do and was given the go-ahead. […]
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The guards then punched him on the nose and face, breaking a tooth, tore his clothes and threw him against a wall, kicking him in the legs and in the crutch. Masouf broke a window to attract the attention of the police, who came into the embassy and took him out after 45 minutes.
Though seriously injured, he was able to describe the attack to the demonstrators and media outside the embassy before being taken to hospital. His camera was returned but without the film in it.
For Canadians, and American friends who want to protest this treatment of a reporter in our country by thugs hired by the Iranian Embassy:
Contact information for the Iranian Embassy in Canada
Iranian Embassy
245 Metcalfe St.
Ottawa, Ontario
K2P 2K2 Canada
Tel (consulate): (613) 233-IRAN (4726)
Fax (consulate): (613) 236-IRAN (4726)
Tel (embassy): (613) 235-IRAN (4726)
Fax (embassy): (613) 232-5712
E-Mail:
E-mail – (Consulate): consulate@salamiran.org
E-mail (Embassy): iranemb@salamiran.org
E-mail (Ambassador): ambassador@iranembassy.org
