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UNODC and Donor Countries Should Cease Funding to Iran for Anti-Drug Trafficking Purposes Until Iran Renounces Use of Death Penalty for Drug-Related Offenses

UNODC and Donor Countries Should Cease Funding to Iran for Anti-Drug Trafficking Purposes Until Iran Renounces Use of Death Penalty…

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Joint Statement on International Day Against the Death Penalty

We, the undersigned organizations, strongly oppose the continuing use of the death penalty in the Islamic Republic of Iran. We…

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Perspective from IHRDC co-founder Payam Akhavan on UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon's visit to the NAM conference in Tehran.

Tehran, Opposition Jostle for U.N. Chief’s Ear By FARNAZ FASSIHI BEIRUT-The Islamic Republic of Iran and its various opposition group…

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Arrest of Saeed Shirzad, a children’s rights activist, while aiding earthquake victims in East Azerbaijan

(23 August 2012) – According to reports obtained by the Iran Human Rights Documentation Center (IHRDC), Saeed Shirzad, an ethnic…

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Don't Mistake Iran's Brutality For Strength

It cannot be denied that hatred and violence are fundamental characteristics of political power in contemporary Iran. The highest per-capita rate…

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Resumption of torture of Ahwazi Arab political prisoners from Khalafabad (Ramshir) in Khuzestan after the imposition of death sentences

(17 August 2012) — The Iran Human Rights Documentation Center (IHRDC) has learned through informed sources in Ahwaz that five…

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Events at Conference for Iranian Studies Demonstrate Restrictions on Academic Freedom in Iran

2 August 2012 (New Haven, USA; with reporting from Istanbul, Turkey) — The ninth biennial conference of the International Society…

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Five more Ahwazi Arabs sentenced to death by the Islamic Republic of Iran

(10 July 2012) — According to local sources, five Ahwazi Arab activists, Hashem Shabani, Mohammadali Omouri, Hadi Rashedi, Seyyed Jaber…

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High bail set as condition for temporary release of imprisoned Christian convert Mehrdad Sajjadi

(3 July 2012) — According to reports the Iran Human Rights Documentation Center (IHRDC) has received from sources close to…

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Statement Against the Execution of Four Ahwazi Arabs and the Death Penalty in Iran

(2 July 2012) Concurrent with the execution of four Iranians in Saudi Arabia, and despite warnings by human rights activists…

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