Publications
Publications
Witness Statement of Abdullah Mostafa Soltani
June 30, 2014
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…
Witness Statement of Heshmat Mostafa Soltani
June 30, 2014
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…
Witness Statement of Gelawij Heidari
June 29, 2014
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…
Witness Statement of Aziz Mamleh
June 29, 2014
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…
Witness Statement of Maruf Kabi
June 29, 2014
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…
Witness Statement of Farkhondeh
June 29, 2014
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…
Witness Statement of Hamed Saati
June 29, 2014
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…
Witness Statement of Farhad Sarhangi
June 29, 2014
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.…
Witness Statement of Raha
June 16, 2014
Witness Statement of Raha
In this Witness Statement, Raha, an Iranian lesbian, describes the ordeals she faced in school as well as the harsh…
Witness Statement of Masumeh Ka’abi
April 21, 2014
Witness Statement of Masumeh Ka’abi
In this witness statement, Masumeh Ka’abi—an Ahwazi Arab housewife—recounts her arbitrary arrest, interrogation and imprisonment by intelligence agents of the…