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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 in 19 different countries around the world. These operations flourished in contravention of both international and national legal regimes, and were planned at the highest levels of state. Many of those responsible are still in power today. This new IHRDC report is the most authoritative study of Iran’s global campaign of political assassination to appear to date.
Community Under Siege: The Ordeal of the Baha’is of Shiraz
The sentencing of twenty-two members of the Baha'i community of Shiraz to death for refusing to recant their faith in 1983 resulted in the largest mass execution of Iranian Baha’is since the Islamic Revolution. Many other members of the community were also imprisoned and abused. The ordeal of the Baha’is of Shiraz is emblematic of the treatment of the Baha'i Faith by the Islamic authorities in Iran. This report exposes the religious of intolerance of the Islamic Republic and puts a human face on the suffering of a community still under siege today.
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 Mykonos Restaurant in Berlin. The attack was one of a series of assassinations designed to intimidate and disrupt the activities of political opponents of the Islamic Republic. The arrest and trial of several Mykonos perpetrators provides a unique insight into this campaign. The IHRDC has sifted through all this material, and has conducted additional research of its own, to produce the first comprehensive publicly available report on the Mykonos case to appear in either English or Farsi.
A Faith Denied: The Persecution of the Baha'is of Iran
This report explores how Baha'i religious practice has effectively been criminalized inside Iran. Baha’is are subjected to a level of social exclusion and harassment in Iran that shocks the conscience and A Faith Denied illuminates the persistent role played by the clerical establishment in perpetuating such abuse. Community leaders have been murdered and sites of irreplaceable religious significance destroyed. The report finds rising levels of persecution since the 2005 election of President Ahmadinejad and resurgence of other conservative political figures.
Impunity in Iran: The Death of Photojournalist Zahra Kazemi
This report explores the ways in which the 2003 death of Iranian - Canadian photo journalist Zahra ( Ziba ) Kazemi illustrates chronic, systemic problems in Iran's law enforcement and justice systems. The report examines specific violations of Iranian and international law that occurred in the Kazemi case and identifies numerous structural impediments to accountability for human rights violations in Iran, concluding that significant reform of the judicial system is needed to counter ongoing impunity for violators.