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- Witness Testimony
Witness Statement: Ensafali Hedayat
Ensafali Hedayat is an independent journalist who has reported extensively on human rights violations, particularly in the Iranian provinces of…
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Witness Statement: Fariba Davoodi Mohajer
Fariba Davoodi Mohajer Tehrani is a writer, journalist and prominent Iranian women’s rights activist. She was one of the founders…
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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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Witness Statement: Shahrara
Shahrara was convicted for her political activities in 1983 when she was sixteen years old. She was not released from…
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Witness Statement: Hassan Zarezadeh Ardeshir
Hassan Zarezadeh Ardeshir is a human rights activist and journalist who has written extensively on human rights and politics in…
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A Year Later: Suppression Continues in Iran
In commemoration of the one year anniversary of the ongoing human rights crisis in Iran, IHRDC issues this short report…
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Forced Confessions: Targeting Iran’s Cyber-Journalists
This publication is a compilation of witness statements by three Iranian bloggers and cyber-journalists who were arrested and detained by…
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Two years too long: Iranian AIDS doctors Arash and Kamiar Alaei still in prison
Media Contact Megan Prock Senior Press Officer mprock [at] phrusa [dot] org Tel: 617-301-4237 Cell: 617-510-3417 Cambridge, Mass – 07/16/2010…
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Ill defender freed; another's fate unknown
Narges Mohammadi, who worked for the Centre for Human Rights Defenders before she was arrested, was freed.
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Amnesty International: fears for prisoners on death row
Imminent executions for crimes: mention made of Zeynab Jalalian, and Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani.
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