Mehdi Rafsanjani Hashemi, undertaking a doctorate on Iran’s constitution, was found liable in absentia by a Canadian court for imprisoning and torturing a rival in the 1990s. Ontario’s superior court of justice ordered Hashemi, fourth son of Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, Iran’s president from 1989 to 1997, to pay total damages of £3.7m to Houshang Bouzari and his family. >>>
