Bleeding Truth is the haunting and courageous memoir of Dr. Shahram Aazam, a former military physician in the Islamic Republic of Iran who found himself at the center of one of the most shocking human rights scandals in recent history-the brutal death of Zahra Kazemi, an Iranian-Canadian photojournalist arrested while documenting the protests of grieving families outside Evin Prison in Tehran.
What began as another routine shift in a military hospital in 2003 turned into a life-altering experience when Dr. Azam was ordered to examine a female detainee brought in under tight security. That detainee was Zahra Kazemi. What he witnessed that day-severe internal injuries, evidence of sexual assault, and signs of relentless torture-would not only change his life but set him on a dangerous path of truth-telling and exile.
In Bleeding Truth, Dr. Aazam offers a gripping and deeply personal narrative, recounting his early life in Iran, his service as a military doctor during the Iran-Iraq War, and the personal convictions that clashed with the system he served. As a patriotic and duty-bound physician, he tried to balance his sense of national service with the Hippocratic Oath. But nothing could prepare him for the moral crisis he would face in July 2003.
The memoir traces Dr. Aazam's emotional and physical journey-from witnessing the horrifying condition of Zahra Kazemi's broken body, to realizing that the state apparatus was determined to silence the truth at any cost. Refusing to stay silent, he fled Iran under imminent threat, ultimately finding asylum in Canada. There, he took the extraordinary step of testifying publicly against the Iranian regime, detailing Kazemi's injuries and confirming that her death was not from natural causes-as the state claimed-but from state-sponsored torture.
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What began as another routine shift in a military hospital in 2003 turned into a life-altering experience when Dr. Azam was ordered to examine a female detainee brought in under tight security. That detainee was Zahra Kazemi. What he witnessed that day-severe internal injuries, evidence of sexual assault, and signs of relentless torture-would not only change his life but set him on a dangerous path of truth-telling and exile.
In Bleeding Truth, Dr. Aazam offers a gripping and deeply personal narrative, recounting his early life in Iran, his service as a military doctor during the Iran-Iraq War, and the personal convictions that clashed with the system he served. As a patriotic and duty-bound physician, he tried to balance his sense of national service with the Hippocratic Oath. But nothing could prepare him for the moral crisis he would face in July 2003.
The memoir traces Dr. Aazam's emotional and physical journey-from witnessing the horrifying condition of Zahra Kazemi's broken body, to realizing that the state apparatus was determined to silence the truth at any cost. Refusing to stay silent, he fled Iran under imminent threat, ultimately finding asylum in Canada. There, he took the extraordinary step of testifying publicly against the Iranian regime, detailing Kazemi's injuries and confirming that her death was not from natural causes-as the state claimed-but from state-sponsored torture.
Bleeding Truth
Bleeding Truth is the haunting and courageous memoir of Dr. Shahram Aazam, a former military physician in the Islamic Republic of Iran who found himself at the center of one of the most shocking human rights scandals in recent history-the brutal death of Zahra Kazemi, an Iranian-Canadian photojournalist arrested while documenting the protests of grieving families outside Evin Prison in Tehran.
What began as another routine shift in a military hospital in 2003 turned into a life-altering experience when Dr. Azam was ordered to examine a female detainee brought in under tight security. That detainee was Zahra Kazemi. What he witnessed that day-severe internal injuries, evidence of sexual assault, and signs of relentless torture-would not only change his life but set him on a dangerous path of truth-telling and exile.
In Bleeding Truth, Dr. Aazam offers a gripping and deeply personal narrative, recounting his early life in Iran, his service as a military doctor during the Iran-Iraq War, and the personal convictions that clashed with the system he served. As a patriotic and duty-bound physician, he tried to balance his sense of national service with the Hippocratic Oath. But nothing could prepare him for the moral crisis he would face in July 2003.
The memoir traces Dr. Aazam's emotional and physical journey-from witnessing the horrifying condition of Zahra Kazemi's broken body, to realizing that the state apparatus was determined to silence the truth at any cost. Refusing to stay silent, he fled Iran under imminent threat, ultimately finding asylum in Canada. There, he took the extraordinary step of testifying publicly against the Iranian regime, detailing Kazemi's injuries and confirming that her death was not from natural causes-as the state claimed-but from state-sponsored torture.
What began as another routine shift in a military hospital in 2003 turned into a life-altering experience when Dr. Azam was ordered to examine a female detainee brought in under tight security. That detainee was Zahra Kazemi. What he witnessed that day-severe internal injuries, evidence of sexual assault, and signs of relentless torture-would not only change his life but set him on a dangerous path of truth-telling and exile.
In Bleeding Truth, Dr. Aazam offers a gripping and deeply personal narrative, recounting his early life in Iran, his service as a military doctor during the Iran-Iraq War, and the personal convictions that clashed with the system he served. As a patriotic and duty-bound physician, he tried to balance his sense of national service with the Hippocratic Oath. But nothing could prepare him for the moral crisis he would face in July 2003.
The memoir traces Dr. Aazam's emotional and physical journey-from witnessing the horrifying condition of Zahra Kazemi's broken body, to realizing that the state apparatus was determined to silence the truth at any cost. Refusing to stay silent, he fled Iran under imminent threat, ultimately finding asylum in Canada. There, he took the extraordinary step of testifying publicly against the Iranian regime, detailing Kazemi's injuries and confirming that her death was not from natural causes-as the state claimed-but from state-sponsored torture.
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| ISBN-13: | 9798319660015 |
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| Publisher: | Barnes & Noble Press |
| Publication date: | 06/15/2025 |
| Pages: | 330 |
| Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.69(d) |
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