TEHRAN, July 25 (UPI) -- A lawyer representing the family of a slain Iranian-Canadian photojournalist vowed Sunday to continue the struggle to bring her killer to justice.
A court cleared an Iranian intelligence agent of responsibility in her death, the New York Times reported.
The journalist, Zahra Kazemi, 54, died of a brain hemorrhage in July 2003 while in detention for having taken photographs outside a prison in Tehran. The intelligence agent, Muhammad Reza Aghdam Ahmadi, was acquitted Saturday on the grounds of a "lack of proof."
The lawyer for Kazemi's family, Shirin Ebadi, said she would appeal the ruling.
"We will use all necessary legal means to seek justice," she said. "If our legal demands are not taken into consideration, and if justice is not served, we will have no choice but to take our case with the request of Kazemi's family to international courts and the United Nations."
