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International Catholic 1Migratlon Commission str:n ;ui 13/05/203.2 Pe: brief report on mental health assessment of Ebrahim Moazzen (UNHCR ID 38S--09C04104, ICN+C iD: TU-390118) Mr. t=brah;m Moazzen was referred to our center by CARITAS Turkey on October 7, 2011 for ;psyc'r;olo;icai assessment aria treatment. A mental health assessment was carried out on October 27, 23711 in Turkish, which ne spoke with an Azerbaijani accent. This report was prepared upon request of the client to be addressed to the International Catholic Migration
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barrier between the clinician and the client which may have resulted in some validity
problems. background irtformation
Mr. Moazzen is a 54-year-o!d, male, Christian, asylum seeker from Iran. He was born in Tabriz on August 28, 1.958. He ciaims to be the nephew of Empress Farah Diba, the widow of Mohammed
Reza Pahlavi, the Shah of Iran and his mother was the sister of the Shale era Genera! Hasan Tajfar. He lived iii the palace of the Shah until the Islamic Revolution of 1979. He has been in Turkey since July 2009. He is married with no children but he is in the process of getting a divorce. !1.ref tauma story as reported by the client Mr. Moazzen has a complicated trauma story which is difficult to understand thoroughly due. to language problems and the client's current mental condition. A brief summary as understood by the this clinician is as follows. Mr. Moazzen was against the regime under Ayatollah Khomeini, participated in protests, was prosecuted, and sentenced to death twice. His sentence was changed to 16 years in
prison as a esult of the monetary compensation by his family. He endured severe torture in prison so
much so that at his eighth year he l Ef s4