Shirin Ebadi, lawyer of Dr. Zahra Bani Yaqoub on her suspicious death case said: ““Provided it being necessary, we will request the court for the exhumation of Dr. Zahra Bani Yaqoub for an autopsy.”
Shirin Ebadi revealed that based on the given details by Zahra’s family, she was bleeding from her nose and ears when she was being buried.
This information supports the argument that her skull might have been broken, a matter that was not pointed out in the Medical Jurisprudence’s report.




one must not forget that one aspect of “security” cases is the image that they carry for the groups that advance such issues. Therefore, before fake charges take to the news-media and become public, those who have had a hand in arresting the students must be weakened. Otherwise, after the severe charges are made public, repeated and are tied to the image of the actors, even the intervention of the head of the judiciary (as history demonstrates) cannot be of much help to the detainees.
How can we tell the judiciary officials of Iran that according to law juveniles can stay alive and continue to live with appropriate and suitable punishment? How must one make this request from the judiciary a public and wide-spread demand and point out that killing a juvenile who has not wholeheartedly committed an act does not solve any of the real problems facing the country?