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2012 International Women's Day Message from Fatemeh Goftari

(8 March 2012) Fatemeh Goftari - a Kurdish mother and activist -- is a former political prisoner who was jailed…

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What follows campaigning? Moving from awareness to reform.

In this installment of the Laurier Institution Community Dialogue Series on Wednesday, February 29, 2012, Gissou Nia -- the Executive…

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Update: Return of seven Kurdish political prisoners to Orumieh’s central prison

(21 February 2012) – Last week, the Iran Human Rights Documentation Center received reports that on Tuesday, February 14 seven…

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Saeed Malekpour: A Canadian on Iran’s death row

By Olivia Ward Foreign Affairs Reporter Evin Prison Ward 350 The pain bores through the night like a red hot needle: a…

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Iran’s “heroic struggle to reclaim its lost humanity”

This is the testimony McGill international law professor Payam Akhavan is delivering to the Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs and…

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Kurdish political prisoners transferred from Orumieh prison to an unknown location

Kurdish political prisoners were transferred from Orumieh prison to an undisclosed location, families report

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Pressures on Kurdish students and teachers in Marivan continue

(13 February 2012) – Over the past few weeks, the Iran Human Rights Documentation Center has received several reports about…

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The mental health of Reza Malek, Ayub Ghanbarpourian, and other political prisoners jailed in Evin prison is in peril

By Firooze Ramezanzadeh, special to IHRDC’s Inside Iran (8 February 2012) – According to the latest reports received from Evin…

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Persian Translation of “Report of the Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression, Frank La Rue”, dated 16 May 2011

(25 January 2012) -- At a time when threats about increasing internet censorship and blocking of telecommunications in Iran has…

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IHRDC Exclusive Full Length Video of Public Hanging of Three Men in Azadi Square in Kermanshah, Iran

(12 January 2012) Last week, the Iran Human Rights Documentation Center (IHRDC) published exclusive video of the public execution of…

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