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Witness Statement of Abdullah Mostafa Soltani
In this witness statement, Abdullah Mostafa Soltani—a former Kurdish peshmerga—discusses the hostilities of the central government of the Islamic Republic…
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Witness Statement of Heshmat Mostafa Soltani
In this witness statement, Heshmat Mostafa Soltani—a former Kurdish peshmerga—discusses the execution of four of his brothers by Islamic Republic…
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Witness Statement of Gelawij Heidari
In this witness statement, Gelawij Heidari—a Kurdish homemaker from Paveh—recounts the Iranian central government’s military attack on the Kurdish region…
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Witness Statement of Aziz Mamleh
In this witness statement, Aziz Mamleh—an attorney and representative of the Kurdish Democratic Party of Iran (KDPI)—describes the high-level negotiations…
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Witness Statement of Maruf Kabi
In this witness statement, Maruf Kabi—an Iranian Kurd—recounts the Iranian government’s execution of his two sisters, Nasrin Kabi and Shahla…
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Witness Statement of Farkhondeh
In this witness statement, Farkhondeh—a Kurdish homemaker—describes the execution of her son by Iranian authorities a year after the Iranian…
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Witness Statement of Hamed Saati
In this witness statement, Hamed Saati—an Iranian Kurd now living in Sweden—describes the Kurdish reaction to the 1979 referendum on…
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Witness Statement of Farhad Sarhangi
In this witness statement, Farhad Sarhangi—a former Kurdish peshmerga—recalls his numerous arrests and imprisonments in Iran in the early 1980s.…
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Faezeh Hashemi’s son, Hassan Lahouti, detained at Iman Khomeini Airport
Hassan Lahouti, the 23 year old son of activist, journalist and former Iranian politician Faezeh Hashemi, was detained at Imam…
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Letter of Abbas-Ali Alizadeh to the Head of the Majlis
Alizadeh’s letter to the head of the Majlis (the Islamic Consultative Assembly) dated 2/24/82. Any action or speech can constitute…
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