Political Freedom
Mykonos-Urteil
A german tribunal finds several accomplices guilty of the assassination of opposition leaders in Berlin. Most of the victims were the leaders of the Democratic Kurdish Party of Iran. The Tribunal held the head of the Islamic Republic of Iran's governmetn responsible for authoring the assassination. ... 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
IHRDC Urges Iran to Release Opposition Leaders
March 1, 2011 NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT – The Iran Human Rights Documentation Center (IHRDC) is concerned about the safety of opposition leaders Mir Hussain Mousavi, his ... 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
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
Ctrl+Alt+Delete: Iran's Response to the Internet
This report documents Iran's response to the rise of the Internet as a form of mass media. This response includes the use of existing laws ... Read more
Condemned by Law: Assassination of Political Dissidents Abroad
The Iranian regime’s state-sponsored campaign of political assassinations abroad does not merely violate the criminal laws of the jurisdictions in which the crimes took place ... Read more
No Safe Haven: Iran's Global Assassination Campaign
Since 1979, the senior leadership of the Islamic Republic of Iran has been linked to at least 162 extrajudicial killings of the regime’s political opponents ... Read more
Murder at Mykonos: Anatomy of a Political Assassination
In September 1992 agents of the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) murdered three leading members of the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan (PDKI) in the ... Read more
A Legal Analysis on Violation of Rights in the Post-Election Events
In this legal commentary, Shadi Sadr, the prominent Iranian lawyer and women's rights activist, examines the unlawful crackdown on dissent following Iran’s June 12, 2009 ... Read more
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