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Witness Statement of Saied Alboghbaysh 23 Aug 2013 | 06:06 pm
In this witness statement, Saied Alboghbaysh, a co-founder of the al-Hiwar Cultural Institute, discusses his arrest, detention and torture in 2011. Five of the other co-founders of al-Hiwar who were a...
Witness Statement of Alireza Kiani 22 Aug 2013 | 07:57 pm
In this witness statement, Alireza Kiani—a student activist—discusses his involvement in different student activist organizations in Iran and his arrest, imprisonment and eventual escape from Iran in ...
Who is Mostafa Pourmohammadi? A profile of Iranian President Hassan Rouhani’s pick for Minister of Justice 6 Aug 2013 | 04:30 am
Mostafa Pourmohammadi (Photo credit:http://www.mardomak.org) (August 5, 2013) – Following the inauguration of Hassan Rouhani—the new president of the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI)—into office this ...
Witness Statement of Foad Sojoodi Farimani 30 Jul 2013 | 09:34 pm
(July 30, 2013) - In this witness statement, Foad Sojoodi Farimani – a former PhD student at Amir-Kabir Industrial University in Tehran who was barred from study – discusses how his activity on social...
Iran: Halt Execution of Arab Minority Men 26 Jul 2013 | 03:00 pm
Four Ahwazi Arabs Sentenced to Hang After Unfair Trials
Islamic Penal Code of the Islamic Republic of Iran – Book Five 16 Jul 2013 | 12:49 am
(July 18, 2013) -- The Iran Human Rights Documentation Center (IHRDC) is pleased to release the first comprehensive English translation of Book Five of the Islamic Penal Code of the Islamic Republic o...
Witness Testimony of Habib Farahzadi: a student activist and law graduate 3 Jul 2013 | 11:11 pm
(July 3, 2013) - In this witness statement, Habib Farahzadi--a student activist and law graduate now living in exile--discusses his membership in the leading student
Deteriorating Conditions and Televised Confessions for Jailed Ahwazi Arab Activists 29 Jun 2013 | 03:18 am
Ali Chobayshat in traditional local garb. (June 28, 2013) – The Iran Human Rights Documentation Center (IHRDC) has received troubling reports regarding the conditions of three
Video Witness Testimony of Arian Moradzadeh: a political prisoner from the 1980s 27 Jun 2013 | 09:59 pm
Arian Moradzadeh--a former political prisoner--was arrested for being a member of a Marxist group in June 1981 in Tabriz, Iran.
Letter from 47 Political Prisoners to Rouhani and the Iranian People 26 Jun 2013 | 01:42 am
Hassan Rouhani campaigned on the claim that he held the key to a more open society. Photo credit: Mehdi Ghasemi/ISNA (June 25, 2013) – On Monday,
