The latest edition of Frontline/World opens with a story on the repression of Iranian student activists and the torture and murder of Canadian journalist Zara Kazemi. There are also stories on the Prestige oil spill off the coast of Spain and the music of the Garfinuna in Belize. It airs tonight on many PBS stations (check local listings) and will be available online next week. An audio version of the Belize story aired Wednesday and continues today on the World.

Jane Kokan, a Canadian journalist who lives in England, went to Iran for several weeks to report the story in September posing as a archeologist going on a tour organized out of Slovenia. She made contacts with student activists living in exile in London before leaving and arranged meetings in code at internet cafes in Iran. The videotapes she shot were regularly smuggled to Turkey and she burned her notes before leaving. She snuck away from the tour's minder to conduct interviews.

Our Times, which was shown on the Sundance Channel in November, focused on the idealism of students campaigning for reform candidates. The repression was shown, but it was not the focus.

Kokan focuses on the torture and murder of student activists which Kazemi was investigating when she was killed. Photos of the injuries of tortured students are shown along with blood on the walls of a dorm where students were attacked with machettes. Footage smuggled out shows a demonstration being violently broken up.

One activist she interviews has his indentity hidden, but two others insist their faces be shown (one is later arrested). Kianooshi Sanjari tells her, "The free world including America can put pressure on the ruling clerics so they accept holding a refrendum - to decide the future democratic structure of Iran. But they cannot interfere militarily. We are not after American military intervention."

As she is driven through the streets of Tehran, she interviews Amir Fahravar who has had a cell phone smuggled to him in jail. He says he has seen at least 19 activists killed in jail. He and many other have been totured. Almost a year ago, a letter he wrote while in jail helped spark a boycott of the municipal elections over the lack of reform. Only twelve percent of voters in Tehran turned out.

She also has a secret meeting in Amsterdam with a Iranian intelligence officer who defected. He gives her details of Zahra Kazemi's touture and death and names the interrogator who beat her. Kokan also talks to Kazemi's son in Canada. He says the Iranian government is repsonsible for her death and he hopes it wasn't in vain.