A controversial diagnosis that Alberta officials say they don’t recognize as a cause of death is cited numerous times in the autopsy report for a man who died after being forcibly restrained by Edmonton police, the IJF has learned.
Mazin Zaim died in hospital on Oct. 2, 2023, nearly two weeks after he was handcuffed, hogtied and pinned down by Edmonton Police Service (EPS) officers responding to reports of an erratic man waving an ice scraper.