Publications
IHRDC Chart of Executions by the Islamic Republic of Iran - 2013
This chart documents executions of people by the Islamic Republic of Iran beginning in January 2013. The official announcements are noted but, as the Iranian government does not announce many executions, it is difficult to know the exact number. ... Read more
Infographic of the number of executions in Iran in 2012
The Islamic Republic of Iran continues to execute people at an alarmingly high rate including those convicted for drug trafficking, a crime that does not ... Read more
Treatment of Children in the New Islamic Penal Code – Chart of Applicable Punishments
(23 February 2012) – In recent weeks, many claims have been made by Iranian parliamentarians and subsequently spread in Iranian media about the purported abolition of the death penalty and Qisas punishments (retribution) for juveniles under 18 years old in the new Penal Code in the Islamic Republic of Iran. ... Read more
IHRDC Chart of Executions by the Islamic Republic of Iran - 2012
This chart documents executions of people by the Islamic Republic of Iran beginning in January 2012. The official announcements are noted but, as the Iranian government does not announce many executions, it is difficult to know the exact number. ... Read more
IHRDC Chart of Executions by the Islamic Republic of Iran - 2011
This chart documents executions of people by the Islamic Republic of Iran beginning in December 2010. The official announcements are noted but, as the Iranian government does not announce many executions, it is difficult to know the exact number. ... Read more
IHRDC’s Response to the List of Issues Presented to Iran by the UNHRC
Report by the Iran Human Rights Documentation Center in Response to the List of Issues to be taken up in connection with the consideration for the third periodic report of Iran (CCPR/C/IRN/3) ... Read more
Documenting Human Rights in Iran: Evidence Collection Guide
This is a short guide for collecting of human rights violations--how to spot violations, how to collect evidence, and what to do with the collected evidence. This guide is for practitioners and non-practitioners. ... Read more
Reports
- Violent Aftermath: The 2009 Election and Suppression of Dissent in Iran
- IHRDC Releases Latest Report – “On the Margins: Arrest, Imprisonment and Execution of Kurdish Activists in Iran Today”
- Haunted Memories: The Islamic Republic’s Executions of Kurds in 1979
- Surviving Rape in Iran's Prisons
- Silencing the Women's Rights Movement in Iran
- Deadly Fatwa: Iran's 1988 Prison Massacre
- Mockery of Justice: The Framing of Siamak Pourzand
- A Year Later: Suppression Continues in Iran
- Speaking For The Dead: Survivor Accounts of Iran's 1988 Massacre
- Forced Confessions: Targeting Iran's Cyber-Journalists
Legal Commentary
- Memorandum on Election Law
- Gender Inequality and Discrimination: The Case of Iranian Women
- Iranian Bar Associations: Struggle for Independence
- The Execution of Women in Iranian Criminal Law: an Examination of the Impact of Gender on Laws Concerning Capital Punishment in the New Islamic Penal Code
- Crimes against Children in Iran
- Understanding the Rushdie Affair: Blasphemy and Extrajudicial Killing in Shi’a Islam (May 2012)
- The Question of "Stoning to Death" in the New Penal Code of the IRI
- Criminal Responsibility of Children in the Islamic Republic of Iran's New Penal Code
- Crisis-Causing Elements in Iran’s Judicial System
- An Analysis of the Responses Given by the Iranian Delegation to the Human Rights Committee
Witness Testimony
- Witness Statement of Jalel Sherhani
- Witness Statement of Hamed Khajeheian: A Sufi Persecuted
- In memory of Marjan Ahouraee: an Iranian transsexual refugee
- Witness Statement of Hamed, an Iranian homosexual
- Witness Testimony of Abbas Sadeghi: From Drugs to Faith
- Witness Statement of Saeed Pourheydar
- Witness Testimony: Behrouz Javid Tehrani
- Testimony of Mina Dehghani Sarkazi: A Child Unprotected
- Witness Testimony of Maryam Ahmadi
- Witness Statement of Eghbal Moradi
