In February 2022, Morteza Talaei’s photo on a treadmill in Richmond Hill was all over social media. It made my stomach churn each time I saw the picture while scrolling through Facebook and Instagram.
Talaei was a member of the Islamic Regime’s police force, but not just any member. He was Tehran’s police chief when the Iranian-Canadian photojournalist Zahra (Ziba) Kazemi was arrested, tortured and murdered in Tehran’s Evin Prison in 2003.
This level of ignorance by the Canadian government was not only disappointing but also horrifying for many Iranian-Canadians, including myself.
