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Torture
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Witness Statement: Mahdis
“Mahdis” was a student activist and a follower of Ayatollah Kazemeyni Borujerdi. She participated in the Student Day demonstrations of…
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Witness Statement: Ali Kantoori
Ali Kantoori, socio-political activist, describes his mistreatment and torture in solitary confinement in Evin prison due to his efforts to…
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Witness Statement: Mahmoud Roghani
In this witness statement, Mahmoud Roghani describes his imprisonment in Iran from 1983 to 1989. Roghani was a member of…
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Witness Statement: Arash Sigarchi
Arash Sigarchi, a journalist and blogger, was arrested in 2004 for his allegedly illegal blogging activities. In this witness statement,…
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Witness Statement: Mohsen Sazegara
Mohsen Sazegara is a political analyst, writer and a founder of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps who later supported Iranian…
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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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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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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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Iran Human Rights Documentation Center Calls on Iran to Release Women’s Rights Activist Shiva Nazar Ahari
PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 30, 2010 NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT – The Iran Human Rights Documentation Center (IHRDC) calls…
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