Reports
IHRDC Releases Latest Report – “On the Margins: Arrest, Imprisonment and Execution of Kurdish Activists in Iran Today”
(11 April 2012) – For decades, the Islamic Republic of Iran has led a targeted campaign of repression against Kurdish activists within Iran’s borders. Today, this persecution is particularly acute, with an estimated 14 Kurdish activists currently on death row in Iran. ... Read more
Haunted Memories: The Islamic Republic’s Executions of Kurds in 1979
This report provides a detailed account of the unlawful summary trials and executions that took place in the Kurdish regions of Iran during August and September of 1979. ... Read more
Surviving Rape in Iran's Prisons
This report documents the ordeals of five former prisoners – two women and three men – who were raped, and witnessed and were threatened with rape while imprisoned in Iranian prisons. ... Read more
Silencing the Women's Rights Movement in Iran
This report examines the Islamic Republic’s attempt to dismantle the women’s rights movement leading up to and following the June 12, 2009 presidential election. Members ... Read more
A Year Later: Suppression Continues in Iran
In commemoration of the one year anniversary of the ongoing human rights crisis in Iran, IHRDC issues this short report on the suppression of dissent ... Read more
Speaking For The Dead: Survivor Accounts of Iran's 1988 Massacre
This report is a collection of witness statements documenting the experiences of five female prisoners in connection with the Islamic Republic of Iran’s summary execution ... Read more
Updated Critique of Iran’s 2009 UN Human Rights Report
Update Report by the Iran Human Rights Documentation Center in Response to the Third Periodic Report of the Islamic Republic of Iran on the International ... Read more
IHRDC’s Critique of Iran’s 2009 UN Human Rights Report
Report by the Iran Human Rights Documentation Center in Response to the Third Periodic Report of the Islamic Republic of Iran on the International Covenant ... Read more
Violent Aftermath: The 2009 Election and Suppression of Dissent in Iran
This preliminary report documents and analyzes the regime’s brutal suppression of dissent after the June 12, 2009 presidential elections. Hours before the incumbent, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, ... Read more
Forced Confessions: Targeting Iran's Cyber-Journalists
This publication is a compilation of witness statements by three Iranian bloggers and cyber-journalists who were arrested and detained by the Iranian government in 2004 ... Read more

