Dr. Shahram Azam, MD, PhD, is the author of the pioneering Bleeding Truth memoir. This unique and brave first-person account reveals the brutal truth behind Iran’s most secretive institutions. His memoir, now familiar throughout the world as the Dr. Shahram Azam memoir, is based on one moment of truth that would change everything, the evening he treated journalist Zahra Kazemi in Baghiatollah Hospital.
It was the start of a terrifying Zahra Kazemi torture eyewitness testimony, in which Dr. Azam recognized evidence of brutal beating, rape, and deadly brain damage, wounds sustained while she was in imprisonment at Tehran’s infamous Evin Prison.
Working under military command, Doctor Azam risked his career and life to save as much evidence as possible. His escape from Iran with hidden documents transformed his testimony into a crucial whistleblower memoir that Iran tried to silence.
Having come to Canada, his story goes on in the form of a human rights memoir, Canada exile, reporting the price of truth and the personal sacrifice for every act of defiance. A survivor of censorship and intimidation, Dr. Azam’s story is a unique medical doctor’s political testimony from Iran, from the ER floor to the Parliament.