happened and I know about, should not be allowed to be repeated." Haideh Daraghahi is a Swedish-Iranian writer, journalist and academic committed to freedom of expression and women's rights issues in relation to immigrant communities. Arne Ruth, former editor-in-chief of Dagens Nyheter in Stockholm, is a writer and lecturer on politics, culture and human rights and a winner of the Swedish Grand Award for Journalistic Achievement. He is a member of the board of the Swedish Helsinki Committee and the Article 19 Freedom of Expression Centre in London. Ziba: A Memorial by Shahrzad Mojab July 9, 2004 Lecture given in Montreal, Concordia University Zahra Kazemi was killed under torture. She was tortured and killed in the hands of the officials of the Islamic Government. Zahra is not the first woman to be tortured and killed in the prisons of the Islamic regime, there are at least 3000 more names of women who were executed in the last 25 years by this theocratic-despotic state. Indeed if we do a closer reading of the Islamic regime's human rights record, we observe a pattern of torture, killing, disappearance and imprisonment (not to mention a complex mechanism of social punishments) which have been committed routinely against women and men in Iran in the last quarter of century; and these have been verified by international human rights organizations such as Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International. Ironically, different factions of the government, reformists and conservatives, both share this record of brutal crimes. Citizens of Canada