Equality Before the Law
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Witness Statement: Tania Ahmadi Kaliji
Ahmadi Kaliji is a web blogger, and a vocal and outspoken critic of Iran’s death penalty. Her articles criticizing the…
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Witness Statement: Shahram Rafizadeh
Shahram Rafizadeh is a poet, investigative journalist and blogger. On September 7, 2004, Rafizadeh was arrested allegedly because of his…
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Mockery of Justice: The Framing of Siamak Pourzand
Mr. Siamak Pourzand, a journalist in his 70s, was abducted in November 2001 by IRI officials, held in a series…
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Ctrl+Alt+Delete: Iran’s Response to the Internet
This report documents Iran’s response to the rise of the Internet as a form of mass media. This response includes…
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Covert Terror: Iran’s Parallel Intelligence Apparatus
This report, together with the report Mockery of Justice: the Framing of Siamak Pourzand (2008), present a comprehensive picture of…
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Constitutional Obstacles: Human Rights and Democracy in Iran
In this commentary, Mehrangiz Kar lays out the operation of the Iranian political system as it stood at what seemed…
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Witness Testimony: Hassan Zarezadeh Ardeshir
Kidnapped by State: Hassan Zarezadeh Ardeshir, a human rights activist and journalist, and former spokesperson for the United Student Front,…
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Iran Human Rights Documentation Center Calls for the Unconditional Release of Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani
PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 4, 2010 NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT – The Iran Human Rights Documentation Center (IHRDC) condemns…
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Iran Human Rights Documentation Center Calls for Release of Nasrin Sotoudeh and Houtan Kian
PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 19, 2010 NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT – The Iran Human Rights Documentation Center (IHRDC) condemns…
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IHRDC Condemns the Arrest of Leading Bahá’ís
PRESS RELEASE (New Haven, May 15, 2008) – Yesterday the government of Iran arrested the entire leadership of the Bahai…
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