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Remains foundinpark Police investigating at Confederation Park
Cornelia Naylor
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HUMAN REMAINS A forensic investigator emerges from the woods at Confederation Park after human remains were discovered on Tuesday. Burnaby RCMP are still investigating. PHOTO CORNELIA NAYLOR
Police are investigating the discovery of partial human remains in a North Burnaby parkTuesday morning. Burnaby RCMP got a report from a member of the public at about 10:30 a.m. that they had found what they believed to be partial human remains in a wooded area of Confederation Park in Burnaby, according to an RCMP press release. Police attended the scene and secured the area, and investigators have since confirmed the remains are human. Police expected to be on scene in Confederation Park for some days as they continued their investigation, according to the press release. The remains have not been identified, and police say it is too early to say how the remains came to be located in the park. There is currently nothing to indicate any danger to the public, according to the RCMP, and more information will be shared when it becomes available.
Judge orders man to divorce wife
Burnaby woman blocked from visiting family because Iranian law only allows men the right to divorce By Cornelia Naylor
cnaylor@burnabynow.com
A Supreme Court judge has given a Burnaby man 14 days to file for an Islamic Iranian divorce from a wife who has already divorced him in Canada. Armin Kariminia and Fariba Nasser were married in Iran in 1994, according to court documents. After having two children, they were separated in B.C. in 2012. Nasser filed for divorce in 2013, and the couple was officially divorced in Canada in 2015. In Iran, however, they are still considered
married. Nasser tried twice to get an Iranian divorce, according to court documents, but was denied because only men have the right to divorce under that country’s sharia law. Women can apply to a judge “should continuation of matrimonial life lead to distress and constriction of the wife,” according to an Iranian court ruling cited in B.C. Supreme Court documents, but the court in Iran ruled Nasser’s lawsuit was “not substantiated.” In an application to B.C. Supreme Court, Nasser said that, without the Iranian divorce, she could not travel to Iran to vis-
it her elderly mother and disabled sister, In a ruling ordering Kariminia to file and whom she has not seen since 2012. pay for an Iranian divorce within 14 days, An Iranian lawyer has told Justice Carla Forth said it her that, if she travels to Iran, would be against CanadiAbout the Kariminia could ban her from an public policy to recognize leaving the country since the divorce, dream that Kariminia, as a man, had pair are still considered marthe exclusive right to the Isried in Iran, and Kariminia, as on … I will not let lamic Iranian divorce. it happen. her “husband,” would control “Such a finding would efher ability to travel, according fectively restrict (Nasser) to court documents. from visiting her aging mothKariminia has opposed the er and disabled sister in Iranian divorce, and court Iran,” she said in her May 1 documents cite texts from ruling. “This is unwarranted Kariminia to Nasser that set in light of Canadian views and out his position, including statements like jurisprudence on the equality of sexes, and “About the divorce, dream on…” and “I the harm to (Nasser) is an injustice that ofwill not let it happen even if you mobilize fends Canadian morality.” the whole world.” Continued on page 5
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