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“I speak to you to gain control of the truth, my truth. It is not the right of others to describe my experience in the way they want to manipulate it.”
“It is like you are helping us create our own record where an official record doesn’t exist – even if the government doesn’t acknowledge my pain, my pain exists!”
“We want justice for what happened to our son – justice and answers. But first we need to tell people what really happened – the world must know.”
These personal observations, distilled from IHRDC interviews with survivors of human rights abuses in the Islamic Republic of Iran, speak to the power of truth and the desire for justice and accountability for unrecorded, or under-recorded, crimes. While the bravery of survivors is essential to bringing these stories to the attention of fellow Iranians and the international community, these courageous individuals also need the resources to speak their truth. IHRDC staff have conducted hundreds of witness interviews—of former prisoners who suffered brutal torture in custody; of family members who expressed their pain at their loved ones being executed for reasons unknown and the bodies never returned to them; of husbands and wives who spoke of the day their spouse was arrested by the Iranian authorities and never seen again; and of many others. These interviews were then distributed in Persian and English in the form of witness statements, reports, and video to a global audience.
But we cannot do it without your support.
No donation is too small. Your donation of $15, $50, $150 or more can:
– Pay for a Skype call to interview the family members of a prisoner on death row.
– Pay for the translation of a survivor’s story of torture and detention into English.
– Pay for the bus, train or plane fare for an IHRDC investigator to meet a witness in person, film their testimony and publish it on our website.
In 2019, IHRDC is committed to even further amplifying the voice of survivors. Give the gift of truth. Donate now.
The Iran Human Rights Documentation Center (IHRDC) is a non-profit organization under Internal Revenue Code Section 501(c)(3). Your donation may be tax deductible. For your benefit and as required by law, we state that the IHRDC did not provide any goods or services in consideration, in whole or in part, for this contribution.