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SIGN PETITION TO HALT EXECUTIONS IN IRAN
European citizens: finance a fair criminal justice system in Iran, not executions! #JusticeIran In 2012, between 541 and 580 people were executed in Iran. Approximately two-thirds ... Read more
Human Rights Day 2012: Mahnaz Parakand’s Testimony on the Mounting Pressures on Iranian Lawyers
(10 December 2012) – On this year’s Human Rights Day, human rights lawyers like Nasrin Sotoudeh, Mohammad Ali Dadkhah, Mohammad Seifzadeh, Abdolfattah Soltani and others ... Read more
Truth and Reconciliation: A Conversation Between a Baha'i Survivor of Human Rights Abuses and a Former Member of the Hojjatieh Association
(November 29, 2012) - In this video, filmed on October 27, 2012 in The Hague, the Netherlands, IHRDC captured a conversation of truth and reconciliation between Ruhi Jahanpour – a Bahá’í who was imprisoned for her beliefs in the Islamic Republic of Iran during the 1980s – and Abbas Mazaheri – a former member of the Hojjatieh Association, which Mazaheri admits perpetrated serious human rights abuses against Iran’s Bahá’í community. ... Watch video
Sign Petition to Stop Executions
Sign this Petition: UNODC, Please Cease Funding to Iran Until Iran Renounces Use of Death Penalty ... Read more
In Their Own Words: Human Rights Violations against Iran’s Kurdish Minority
(9 August 2012) -- The government of the Islamic Republic of Iran routinely violates domestic and international law in the course of arresting, interrogating, and prosecuting Kurdish civil and political activists. ... Read more
Still no accountability for post June 2009 presidential election abuses in Iran
Today, June 12, marks three years since Iranians took to the polls to vote for the next president of the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI). ... Read more
2012 International Women's Day Message from Fatemeh Goftari
(8 March 2012) Fatemeh Goftari - a Kurdish mother and activist -- is a former political prisoner who was jailed in 2002 and 2008 for her women's rights activism. Watch video
Persian Translation of “Report of the Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression, Frank La Rue”, dated 16 May 2011
(25 January 2012) -- At a time when threats about increasing internet censorship and blocking of telecommunications in Iran has reached a fever pitch, it is more important than ever for Iranians to know what constitutes their right to freedom of expression under international law. ... Read more
The Parties and Associations Law Reform Plan – English Translation Now Available
The Iran Human Rights Documentation Center is pleased to announce that an English translation of the Parties and Associations Law (PAL) Reform Plan is now available. ... Read more
Internal Regulation on the Commission of Article 90 of the Constitution
The Iran Human Rights Documentation Center is pleased to release the first-ever, full-length English translation of the Internal Regulation on the Commission of Article 90 of the Islamic Republic of Iran’s Constitution. ... Read more
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