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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.
When I learned that Talaei’s picture on the treadmill was taken at the gym in my neighbourhood, only five minutes away from my home, the combination of rage, disappointment, helplessness, and insecurity flared up in my heart. I felt my self-identity as a refugee woman, who fled her homeland to seek safety in Canada, instantly highjacked.
My dad’s voice kept echoing in my mind: “Each time that famous Sardar (police chief) appeared back at the secret detention centre, a new round of horrifying interrogation and torture would have been started.”
I recalled his voice talking about when the guards forced him into the shower and covered his body with hair removal cream. Ten minutes later, instead of letting him wash off the cream, they forced him to put on his dirty, bloody clothes, his body still covered in chemicals. They said there was no time to wash it off as “Sardar” had just arrived and wanted to meet him. His old, vulnerable, weak body burned and became severely infected. “Sardar” shouted at him while he was begging for water to wash off the chemical and said if he confessed that he was a spy, they would let him back in the shower.
The painful reality is that many Iranian-Canadians, including myself, have repeatedly tried to alert the Canadian government across parties since 2009 to the fact that Canada has become a safe-haven for the murderers of the Islamic Republic. Officials have met with many of us, individually and in group settings and little was done until recent months.
Since the Woman, Life, Freedom revolution, I have been asked countless times how safe I feel in Toronto. Similarly, mainstream media such as CBC have approached me for interviews, searching for the answers to the same question. Honestly, I have no idea how to respond to this question since Talaie has appeared in my neighbourhood. I am not sure how safe I feel when the man who tortured my father lived in the same neighbourhood as my family.
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