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Testimonies of Victims and Rights Abusers

Victims and Witnesses

The More They Lock Us Up, the Stronger We Become
Narges Mohammadi
September 16, 2023
Dozens of Kurdish Families Exiled without Charges or Trial: Accounts from 1983
Abdorrahman Boroumand Center for Human Rights in Iran
August 24, 2023
Testimony of Dr. Mohsen Sohrabi
Mohsen Sohrabi
February 18, 2023
The Court-Appointed Attorney Won't Answer our Calls": Mashallah Karami, father of Mohammad Mehdi Karami, on his Son's Case
Medhi Beikoghali / translation by Abdorrahman Boroumand Center
December 12, 2022
"They Have Deprived Us of a Chance to Grieve by Leaving Us with So Many Funerals"
Hooshang Golshiri / translated by Abdorrahman Boroumand Center
December 20, 2021
Political Prisoner Soheil Arabi on his Transfer to Exile
Soheil Arabi / Translated by Abdorrahman Boroumand Center
November 30, 2021
"A Place Close to the End of the World": Sepideh Qolian's Account of the Women's Ward at Bushehr Center Prison
Sepideh Qolian - translation by Abdorrahman Boroumand Center
September 9, 2021
"Mahdad Qorashi: His Life and his Family's Experience, by his Brother"
brother of Mahdad Qorashi
August 19, 2021
Witness Testimony of Mohammad Hedayati, Dissident Cleric
Abdorrahman Boroumand Center
August 16, 2021
Letter from Shuresh Morovati, Death Row Prisoner in Saqqez: "Recognize Some Value for Human Dignity!"
HRANA, Shuresh Manouti
February 2, 2021
"I Was Tired: Enough Talk, It was Time for Action": Witness Testimony of Azam Jangravi
Abdorrahman Boroumand Center
December 15, 2020
“Our Family Fell Apart after my Brother’s Execution”: Witness Testimony of the Sister of a Kurdish Man Put to Death
Abdorrahmamn Boroumand Center
November 12, 2020
Narges Mohammadi's Account of her Battle with COVID-19 in Zanjan Prison
Narges Mohammadi / translation by Abdorrahman Boroumand Center
July 22, 2020
Narges Mohammadi from Zanjan Women's Prison: "I am Living with Coronavirus with No Medication or Medical Care"
Narges Mohammadi / translation by Abdorrahman Boroumand Center
July 12, 2020
Open Letter of Lawyers of Three November 2019 Protesters Sentenced to Death to Judiciary Spokesman
Jamaran News and Information Website / Translation by Abdorrahman Boroumand Center
July 1, 2020
Lawyer of Three Sentenced to Death for November 2019 Protests: In Case Contrary to Criminal Procedure, I Don't Know What's in Case File
Emtedad News and Analysis / Translation by Abdorrahman Boroumand Center
June 25, 2020
"Judge Mansuri Destroyed My Life": Witness Testimony of Azam Jangravi
Radio Farda / Translation by Abdorrahman Boroumand Center
June 20, 2020
"My Home is All of Baluchistan": Witness Testimony of Habibollah Sarbazi
Abdorrahman Boroumand Center
May 11, 2020
A Year Here is Like 10 Somewhere Else: Witness Testimony from Lajevardi Drug Camp
Abdorrahman Boroumand Center
March 16, 2020
“They Didn’t Even Call for a Last Visit of a Father with his Kids”: A Widow of Execution Speaks
Abdorrahman Boroumand Center
February 7, 2020
"They Swore and it was Over": The Story of one Qassameh Case
Abdorrahman Boroumand Center
January 9, 2020
"The Only Sin I Committed Was to Visit My 90-Year-Old Father in Israel": Account of a Jewish Prisoner at Evin
HRANA / Translation by Abdorrahman Boroumand Center
November 15, 2019
Letter of Atefeh Rangriz: "Against the Injustice Done to Me, I Make my Body a Weapon"
HRANA News Agency and Atefeh Rangriz / Translation by Abdorrahman Boroumand Center
October 18, 2019
The Third National Circle of Iran's Baha'is: Dissolved, then Executed
Merhdad Bashiri
August 30, 2019
Letter of Aras Amiri to Judiciary Chief Ra'isi
Aras Amiri Larijani
July 14, 2019
Mohammad Kazem Kuhi, General Director of the Tehran University Dorms, on the 1999 Dorm Attack Case
ISNA / Translation by Abdorrahman Boroumand Center
July 13, 2019
Account of Mohammad Sharifi Moqadam from Fashafuyeh Prison
Mohammad Sharifi Moqadam / Translation by Abdorrahman Boroumand Center
June 24, 2019
"My Father Was Executed When I Was Nine": Interview with Homa Shahsavaripour
Abdorrahman Boroumand Center
May 29, 2019
"If You're Not a Lesbian, Why Don't You Have a Boyfriend?": Witness Testimony of Rezvaneh Mohammadi
Abdorrahman Boroumand Center
May 17, 2019
Zahedan Prisoners to Judiciary Head: We've Been in Limbo for Years
Inmates of Zahedan Prison / Translation by Abdorrahman Boroumand Center
May 13, 2019
"The Kids of Familes of People Executed and Jailed are the Prisoners No One Counts": Witness Statement of Hamed Farmand
Abdorrahman Boroumand Center
April 8, 2019
A Former Prison Guard Speaks: One Account From Behind Bars
Abdorrahman Boroumand Center
March 28, 2019
Torture Account of Sepideh Gholian: "I'm Read to Testify in a Fair Court of Law"
Sepideh Gholian
January 9, 2019
Student Activist Majid Tavakoli on his Experience with Torture
Majid Tavakoli
January 8, 2019
"Engage Authorities on my Brother's Civil Rights": Sister of Imprisoned Environmental Activist Sam Rajabi Appeals to UN Special Rapporteur
Katayoun Rajabi / Translation by Abdorrahman Boroumand Center
January 5, 2019
Torture Account of Esmail Bakhshi
Esmail Bakhshi
January 4, 2019
“A Mother Never Forgets Her Child”: Witness Testimony of Sanam, Afghanistan Citizen
Abdorrahman Boroumand Center
December 30, 2018
“I Told the Judge: You’re Not Just Killing One Person, You’re Killing us All”: Witness Testimony of Hajiya, Afghanistan Citizen
Abdorrahman Boroumand Center
December 30, 2018
"Our Financial Situation was Bad but Nobody Helped Us”: Witness Testimony of Mahmood, Afghanistan Citizen
Abdorrahman Boroumand Center
December 30, 2018
"People Just Don’t Want to Have Anything to Do with You": Afghan Woman Whose Husband Was Executed in Iran, Tells her Story
Abdorrahman Boroumand Center
November 29, 2018
"I will Curse Iran for as Long as I Live": Zia Gol, Afghan whose Husband was Executed in Iran, Tells her Story
Abdorrahman Boroumand Center
November 29, 2018
"If we Hadn't Given them Money, They would have Tossed his Body in the Mountains": Ahmad, Afghan whose Brother was Executed in Iran, Tells his Story
Abdorrahman Boroumand Center
November 29, 2018
"When Will We Tear Down these Gallows?" : Political Prisoners of Raja'i Shahr Recount Execution of their Wardmates
Political Prisoners of Raja'i Shahr Prison / Translation by Abdorrahman Boroumand Center
September 12, 2018
“Like I Died and Came Back to Life”: Witness Statement of Mohammad Sediq Karimi
Abdorrahman Boroumand Center
September 5, 2018
Nader Fatourehchi's Account of Fashafuyeh Prison: "Those Who Should be Dead still Move, Sweat, and Rot"
Nader Fatourehchi / translation by Abdorrahman Boroumand Center
August 21, 2018
One Execution, a Lifetime of Torture: Witness Statement of Serveh Mahmudzadeh
Abdorrahman Boroumand Center
August 10, 2018
"Abolfazl Was a Kid": The Family of a Juvenile Offender Put to Death Speaks
Hedieh Kima'i / Partial Translation by ABC
August 8, 2018
Without Freedom of Opinion and Expression, Iran Will Keep Jailing Political Prisoners: Zahedan Prisoners to Special Rapporteur
Political Prisoners of Zahedan Prison / Translation by ABC
July 16, 2018
Qesas Was Not the End of the Story: A Man Sentenced to Death as Teenager Recounts 12 Years on Iran's Death Row
Chacavak / Translation by Abdorrahman Bouroumand Center
July 11, 2018
Floor Sleepers: A Report from Inside Qarchak Prison
Banafsheh Jamali / Translation by ABC
March 17, 2018
Open Letter of Ahmad Reza Jalali's wife
Ahmad Reza Jalali's wife
February 7, 2018
“All The Promises Were Empty Promises”: A Young Woman Loses Her Husband to Iran’s War on Drugs
Abdorrahman Boroumand Foundation
November 7, 2017
Ahmareza Djalali: Why Was I Arrested by the Intelligence Ministry of Iran?
Ahmareza Djalali
October 20, 2017
“Now, In My Heart, I Miss My Brother’s Scent”: A Sister Bears Witness to a Brother Put to Death
ABF interview
August 7, 2017
Witness Statement of Mahmoud Salehi
Iran Human Rights Documentation center
June 29, 2017
A Letter From 50 Family of 80s Victims To Special Rapporteur, Asma Jahangir
Family of 80s Victims
May 31, 2017
"What right did you have to protest a death sentence?": Witness Statement of Atena Daemi
Atena Daemi/ABF interview
May 9, 2017
Through the "Tunnel of Terror": Account of a Baluch Political Prisoner
HRANA interview/ abridged English translation by ABF
February 15, 2017
To UN Special Rapporteur Asma Jahangir: "Heed Our Cry, the Cry of Those Condemned to be Erased"
Mohammad Saber Malek Raisi/ABF English translation
January 17, 2017
…Autumn 2016 Journey : A Daughter's Fight For the Memory of Slain Dissident Parents
Parastu Foruhar/ABF English translation
January 4, 2017
Across a Red Line: A Young Student Testifies
ABF interview
December 5, 2016
"A Thousand Litres of Bleach Couldn't Clean Your Black Heart: Go to Hell"
Solat Sheikhnia/ ABF interview
October 19, 2016
Open Letter of the Political Prisoner, Maryam Monfared Akbari
Akbari Monfared Maryam
October 14, 2016
Saman Naseem Sends a Heartfelt Thank You From Prison in Iran
Saman Naseem
July 11, 2016
My Interrogator said :"You’re a world champion? We’ll see what you really are under the whip."
Ali Ansari (Meraj) / ABF Interview
June 29, 2016
A Letter From Narges Mohammadi to Pen International
Nargess Mohammadi
May 19, 2016
“Do You Know the Sentence for Drinking Booze in Islam?": A Teenage Boy's Flogging
M. Z/ABF Interview
April 20, 2016
Prisoners' Letter in Support of the UN Special Rapporteur
41 Iranian Political Prisoners/ ABF Translation
March 10, 2016
"Don't Worry: We'll Whip Him in a Way He'll Still be Able to Sit"
Nima/ Interview with ABF
December 4, 2015
An Afghan Immigrant: I Have Never Felt Like I’m Living Like a Human Being in Iran
Ali M./ Interview ABF
October 16, 2015
Witness Statement of Omid Habibinia
Omid Habibinia / Interview
October 2, 2015
A Blogger's Letter From Karaj Prison: "Don't Let them Exile Me"
Mohammad Reza Pourshajari (Siamak Mehr)
September 17, 2015
“Let Me Speak” : a Tale From Prison
Nargess Mohammadi/ translated by Farnaz Alvandi
July 30, 2015
"Of The Five Siblings Who Were Arrested Only I Survived"
Ebrahim (Abbas) Mohammad Rahimi/Witness Statement
July 28, 2015
Flogged, Jailed and Massacred: a Witness to the Lives of Afghans in Iran
Ali Esmai’li/ ABF Interview
July 20, 2015
Mr Prosecutor! Does a Mother’s Telephone Contact With Her Child Undermine National Security?
Nargess Mohammadi/ ABF Translation
July 10, 2015
He Was 17, She Was 15, Love Was their Crime and Flogging Their Punishment
Siavash/Interview with ABF
July 2, 2015
Sentenced for Defending Human rights Abdolfattah Soltani Is Denied Leave
Ma'soumeh Dehqan/ABF translation
June 18, 2015
A Criminal Case Investigation: Reprieve at the Gallows
Kian, A Juvenile on Death Row/ Interview by Marjan Laghaee/ ABF Translation
June 13, 2015
Flogged At 19 For Walking With a Girl, Arrested And Tortured At 27 For Student Activism
Siavash Safavi/Interview with ABF
June 12, 2015
My Interrogator Said: Neither Imam Ali, Nor Khalif Omar, Not Even God is Here, Your Life is In My Hands
Tofiq Hammadi/ABF Interview
April 14, 2015
The Father Was Arrested For His Innovative Religious Views, the Son Was Coerced to Confession and Executed
ABF Interview
April 13, 2015
Our Last Visit to Our Children Before Their Execution
Families of Six Executed Kurdish Sunni Activists
April 6, 2015
People Humiliate, Authorities Punish: the Story of an Afghan Woman in Iran
Zahra/Interview with ABF
March 27, 2015
Criminalization of Civil Rights Activism in the Iranian Kurdistan : A Victim’s Account
Ahmad Bab/ABF interview and Translation
February 18, 2015
Inherited Persecution: A Son Punished For His Mother’s Political Activism
Seyed Ali Hosseindust Taleshani/ABF interview and translation
January 2, 2015
A Student Activist' s Account of 21 Months and 3 Days Detention in Shiraz (2009-2011)
Hamed Kavusi/ABF Interview and Translation
October 31, 2014
My Interrogator Said: You Are An Ass, And Asses Do Not Merit Human Rights
Sohrab Karmi/ABF Interview and Translation
October 14, 2014
Behrooz Javid Tehrani: 11 Years in Prison For Exercising Freedom of Speech and Assembly
Behrooz Javid Tehrani / Interview ABF
September 30, 2014
Witness Statement of Hasan Yousefi Eshkevari
Hasan Yousefi Eshkevari / Iran Human Rights Documentation Center
August 30, 2014
Sattar Beheshti's Murderer Gets Three Years in Prison
International Campaign For Human Rights in Iran
August 9, 2014
A Young Man Who Faced the Gallows Twice
Safar Angooti, A Juvenile on Death Row/ Interview with Tabnak/ ABF Translation
July 10, 2014
A Letter From M. Ali Taheri to Ahmad Shahid
Mohammad Ali Taheri
July 8, 2014
Witness Statement of Abdullah Mostafa Soltani
Iran Human Rights Documentation Center
July 1, 2014
Defrocked for sawing Discord in the Seminary : A Cleric's Testimony on Torture and Exclusion
A. M/ABF interview and translation
June 25, 2014
Fathers Of Death Row Prisoners Write To President Rouhani
Habibollah Ahmadi – Khoda-Rahm Dehghani/ABF translation
June 19, 2014
Iran: Gay Parties Turned Nightmares
Puya/ABF interview
April 25, 2014
Nima: They Treated me like a whore because they had learned that I was gay
Nima Nia/Interview with ABF
April 3, 2014
I Was Among the First Baha’i Students Who Attended College in Iran After the Revolution
Parham Aqdassi, expelled nuclear physics student /ABF Interview
March 26, 2014
"You Arabs Don't Have Much of an Education to Speak of - And You Want Your Rights?"
Karim Dahimi/interview with ABF
March 24, 2014
A Narrative of Drug Addicts from Camp Shafaq (Twilight)
Former Detainees in Camp Shafaq/Interview by Fatemeh Jamalpur/ABF Translation
March 18, 2014
Sunni Kurd Activists Reject Trumped Up Charges
Iman Kurdestani/Sunni Prisoners' Spokeman
March 16, 2014
Prisoners’ Relatives: We Suffer From Collateral Consequences of Unfair Verdicts
Fereshteh Ghazi
December 22, 2013
Mahan Mohammadi:Royalist Association Is A Conspiracy Orchestrated by The Ministry Of Information
Massih Alinejad
December 21, 2013
Yashar Yeganeh Mehr: The Blows Were so Hard That They Tore the Palm of My Hand
Yashar Yeganeh Mehr/Interview with ABF
December 9, 2013
Hasti: They Forced Everyone to Get Naked, Violently Taking our Clothes off
Boroumand Foundation
December 9, 2013
Witness Statement of Shiva: An Iranian Transsexual
Iran Human Rights Documentation Center
October 16, 2013
Witness Statement of Mehdi Nozar
Iran Human Rights Documentation Center
October 15, 2013
Mohammad Reza Ashough: My skin was all broken. My feet were deformed
Boroumand Foundation
October 1, 2013
“Do You Say Your Prayers? Do You Still Believe in Your Organization? Are You Ready to Give a Televised Confession?
Boroumand Foundation
October 1, 2013
Unlimited Number of Lashes Until They Either Accept Praying Or Die
Boroumand Foundation
October 1, 2013
Hamid Ashtari: I Have Had Two Operations On My Elbow Because of Torture
Boroumand Foundation
October 1, 2013
For the Leftists, the Excuse for the Execution Was Apostasy, For the Mojahedin, It Was Waging War on God
Boroumand Foundation
October 1, 2013
Witness Statement of Zaynab Bayazidi
Zaynab Bayazidi
September 30, 2013
Witness Statement of Ehsan
Ehsan
September 28, 2013
Witness Testimony of Omidreza Pourmohammadali Farashah
Omidreza Pourmohammadali Farashah
September 26, 2013
Detained Physicist Omid Kokabee's Letter to the Head of the Judiciary
Omid Kokabi
September 24, 2013
A Letter From Four Death Row Prisoners to Ban ki Moon and Ahmed Shaheed
Jamshid and Jahangir Dehqani, Kamal Molaee, Hamed Ahmadi
September 9, 2013
Witness Statement of Saied Alboghbaysh
Iran Human Rights Documentation Center
August 23, 2013
Glossary And Political Parties and Religious Denominations Referred to in Some of the Witness Testimonies
Abdorrahman Boroumand Foundation
August 12, 2013
Witness Statement of Alireza Kiani
Iran Human Rights Documentation Center
August 12, 2013
I Was Arrested Twenty Days Before I Turned 14
Manuchehr Esshaqi/Interviewed by Jennifer Robinson
August 9, 2013
Mr Rouhani Listen To Us!
Mansoureh Behkish
August 5, 2013
Letter from Hossein Ronaghi to his interrogators
Hossein Ronaghi
August 4, 2013
Witness Statement of Foad Sojoodi Farimani On His Arrest and Interrogation
Iran Human Rights Documentation Center
July 30, 2013
The Mothers of Four Ahwazi Activists
The mothers of four Iranian-Arab activists on death row
July 24, 2013
Omid Kokabee's Mother: My Son's Crime Was To Turn Down Military-Security Organs
Ms. Haq-Nazari/Interview with Jaras Website/ABF translation
July 19, 2013
Witness Testimony of Habib Farahzadi: a student activist and law graduate
Iran Human Rights Documentation Center
July 3, 2013
Accused of Waging “Soft War,” Christian Pastor Beaten in Iran’s Evin Prison
Naghmeh Abedini/ Interview by International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran
April 23, 2013
You’re an Armenian, a Christian, what are YOU doing here? How can a Christian be a communist?
Luise Baghramian (1959-2013)/Interview by ABF
April 15, 2013
Witness Statement of Hamed Khajeheian: A Sufi Persecuted
Iran Human Rights Documentation Center
April 1, 2013
Witness Statement of Hamed Khajeheian: A Sufi Persecuted
Iran Human Rights Documentation Center
April 1, 2013
Priest Behnam to Ahmed Shaheed:My Being Held Captive in the Prison of the Islamic Government of Iran, is not Just the Captivity of an Individual, but of an Entire System of Thought
Priest Behnam
March 18, 2013
Masoud Alizadeh, an Eyewitness: They said: "You will not come back from Kahrizak alive."
Behrouz Samadbeigi
March 11, 2013
“We Will Make You Love the Regime [of the Islamic Republic] Before You Leave this Prison”
Ali Reza Firuzi/Interview by ABF
March 7, 2013
Witness Statement of Saeed Pourheydar
Iran Human Rights Documentation Center
March 5, 2013
Death Row Political Prisoner, Mohammad ali Amouri : I Was For Peace and Dialog, Why Should I Be Executed?
Mohammad Ali Amouri Nejad
February 22, 2013
An Open Letter to the UN Special Rapporteur and High Commissioner of Human Rights by Iraj Mohammadi
Iraj Mohammadi
February 12, 2013
I was threatened to keep quiet....
Fereshteh Ghazi
January 24, 2013
A representative from the Supreme Judicial Council met with death row prisoners Zanyar and Loghman Moradi
Committee of Human Rights Reporters
January 12, 2013
Vahid Asghari's Letter to Evin Prison Warden
Vahid Asghari
January 6, 2013
A Letter From Vahid Asghari to Ahmad Shahid from Prison
Vahid Asghari
January 4, 2013
The interrogator Said: "Don't Look for a Couple of Bones of His (Sa'id Zinali)."
Elnaz Zinali/interview by F. Ghazi
December 30, 2012
Mr. Kazemeini Boroujerdi's Letter to Pope Benedict XVI on the Eve of Christmas
Kazemeini Boroujerdi
December 26, 2012
Security Forces Prevent Sattar Beheshti's Case From Reaching Court
Fereshteh Ghazi
December 26, 2012
Political Prisoner Iraj Mohammadi's Letter Protesting the Torture Inflicted Upon Him by the Ministry of Intelligence
Iraj Mohammadi
November 30, 2012
The Lettre of the Iranian Church Leader, Behnam Irani, To the International Human Rights Community
Behnam Irani
November 2, 2012
They Tell Us Not to Talk or They Will Shut Our Mouths
Sattar Beheshti
October 29, 2012
Detained Blogger's Account of Torture and Ill Treatment in Karaj Prison
Mohammad reza Pourshajari
October 17, 2012
Witness Testimony of Majid Tamjidi: Arrest and Imprisonment of a post-June 2009 Protester
Iran Human Rights Documentation Center
October 13, 2012
Shahrokh Zamani's Letter to Amnesty International
Shahrokh Zamani
September 19, 2012
Witness Statement of Farshid
Iran Human Rights Documentation Center
September 15, 2012
Dr. Mohammad Maleki to Participants of the Non-aligned Movement Summit in Tehran
Mohammad Maleki
August 25, 2012
A Letter From Afshin Osanloo, Labor Activist, From Prison
Afshin Osanloo
August 7, 2012
Shahrokh Zamani: Report On Yazd Prison's Harsh Conditions
Shahrokh Zamani
July 24, 2012
Shabnam Madadzadeh From Qarchak-Varamin Prison : I Speak as a Witness
Shabnam Madadzadeh
July 14, 2012
A Message From Four Arab/Iranian Political Prisoners Before Their Execution
July 6, 2012
Dissident Cleric Tortured and Prosecuted: “They Told Me ‘We Will Snatch Your Wife”
International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran
July 2, 2012
They Killed a 19 Year Old Young Man in Ahvaz Prison
Fereshteh Ghazi
June 26, 2012
Open Letter by Detained Labor Activist, Shahrokh Zamani, To UN Rapporteur on Iran
Shahrokh Zamani
June 20, 2012
Mothers of Laleh Park : Three Years Later Authorities Are still Eluding their Responsibility in the Violent Post Elections' Repression
Mouvement of Victims' Mothers
June 12, 2012
Witness Statement of Mahnaz Parakand
Mahnaz Parakand/Interview with IHRDC
June 8, 2012
Witness Statement of Kajal Sheikh Mohammadi On Her Arrest and Trial
Iran Human Rights Documentation Center
June 6, 2012
Javid Hutan Kian, Sakineh Ashtiani's Detained Lawyer, on His Ordeal in Prison
Javid Houtan Kian and Naqi Mahmudi
June 4, 2012
Detained Human Rights Activist, Nargess Mohammadi, Relates the Suffering of Her Children
Nargess Mohammadi
May 23, 2012
Arash Sadeqi's Grand Father's Open Letter to Arash's Interrogator
Arash Sadeqi's Grand Father
May 5, 2012
Hossein Ronaqi's Letter to the Head of the Judiciary : I Will Not Submit to Intimidation, Tyranny and Oppression
Ronaqi Hossein
April 13, 2012
"If You Give an Interview Something Will Happen to Your Children"
The Mother of Shahrokh Rahmani/Interview with Amir Hossein Mohammadi
March 12, 2012
Two Iranian Kurdish Dissidents on Death Row Appeal to Dr. Ahmad Shahid UN Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in Iran
Zanyar and Loqman Moradi/English Translation by ABF
January 26, 2012
Journalists Detained in Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Solitary Cells
Friends of Parastou Dokouhaki and Marzieh Rasouli
January 22, 2012
Witness Statement of Rebin Rahmani: A Kurdish Activist
Rebin Rahmani/IHRDC Interview
January 16, 2012
A Letter from the Family of Sa'id Malekpur : An Iranian Prisoner on Death Row
The Family of Sa'id Malekpur/ABF Translation
December 6, 2011
Kurdish Human Rights Activist Sadiq Kabudvand' s Letter to Ahmad Shahid the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Situation in Iran
Sadiq Kabudvand
October 12, 2011
Political Prisoner Reza Sharifi Bukani's Grievance Letter
Reza Sharifi Boukani
September 7, 2011
They Killed My Father Because He Refused to Provide False Testimony
Behrang Sudbakhsh/Interview by Fereshteh Ghazi
August 24, 2011
Ayatollah Borujerdi's Appeal to Internation Human Rights Lawyers
Boroujerdi
August 1, 2011
Political Prisoner Abdollah Momeni's Open Letter to the Islamic Republic of Iran's Supreme Leader
Abdolah Momeni/English translation by International Campaign For Human Rights in Iran
July 31, 2011
Hazhir Palaschi on Juvenile Prison: "Inmates are Constantly Tortured"
Delbar Tavakoli
July 20, 2011
Iran: Violation of the Right to Education
Navid Khanjani/Interview with The Boroumand Foundation
June 10, 2011
Charged with "Waging War On God" for Defending Human Rights: Majid Dori's Letter From Behbahan Prison
Majid Dori/English translation ABF
May 14, 2011
Open Letter of the Political Prisoner on Death Row, Mehdi Eslamian, to Mr. Ban Ki-Mun
Mehdi Eslamian
April 21, 2011
Baha'i Student Banned from Studies/A Victim's Account
Hesam Misaghi / Interview and English translation by ABF
April 14, 2011
Politica Prisoner Hadi 'Abedi Baxhoda's Grievance Letter
Hadi Abedi Baxoda
March 10, 2011
Witness Statement of Danial Shahri
Iran Human Rights Documentation Center
February 13, 2011
An Open Letter to the UN Special Rapporteur by the Family of the Iranian Kurdish Dissident Anvar Hossein Panahi
The Family of the Iranian Kurdish Dissident Anvar Hossein Panahi
November 30, 2010
The Qarna Massacre
Behad Bordbar / Translation by Komala International
September 16, 2010
A Political Prisoner's Open Letter to Iran's Supreme Leader Regarding the Validity of Corerced Confessions
Abdollah Momeni/English translation by International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran
September 9, 2010
"Sara": a victim of state violence in the aftermath of the 2009 presidential election
Sara / Interview and English translation by ABF
August 6, 2010
A Witness Account of Police Brutality Against Demonstrators, June-December 2009
Mohammad Yeganeh/Interview and English translation by ABF
July 1, 2010
An account of the street protests in Tehran following the announcement of the 2009 presidential election results
Kian Amani/Interview by ABF
June 14, 2010
The Story of Ramin Haqju, A Victim of Iran's Security Forces in June 2009
Ramin Haqju/interview by ABF
June 13, 2010
Saeed Malekpour's Letter from Evin Prison
March 13, 2010
Iran July 2009: A Witness to State Crimes in Kahrizak Detention Center
Sa'id/ABF translation
February 2, 2010
Political Prisoner Behruz Javid Tehrani's Grievance Letter
Behruz Javid Tehrani
January 21, 2010
Shiva Nazar Ahari's Account of Her Detention /An Interview With Mahboubeh Abbasgholizadeh
Shiva Nazar Ahari/Mahbubeh Abbasgholizadeh/English Translation ABF
December 10, 2009
A Letter from Political Prisoner Ehsan Fattahian,Two Days Before His Execution
I Have Never Been Afraid of Death
November 11, 2009
Iranian Boy Who Defied Tehran Hardliners Tells of Prison Rape Ordeal
Homa Homayoun
August 22, 2009
1988 : Mass Killing of Political Prisoners in Ahvaz
Ali interviewed by Monireh Baradaran
October 1, 2008
Mr. Ahmadi Nejad: Why Lie?
Abolfazl Jahandar/ABF translation
September 28, 2008
1988 : Mass Killing of Political Prisoners in Esfahan
Reza Saki interviewed by Monireh Baradarn/English translation ABF
August 30, 2008
I want to scream the pain that all detained human beings share
Abolfazl “Puya” Jahandar
August 21, 2008
Murder in Tehran
Sohrab Mokhtari
August 1, 2008
A Letter From a Juvenile Inmate on Death Row
Mohammad Fadaei/Translated by Iran Human Rights Voice
June 6, 2008
1988 Mass Execution of Political Prisoners in Hamedan, A Testimony
Hadi Aminian/Bidaran/ABF translation
June 5, 2008
1988 Mass Execution of Political Prisoners in Mashhad, A Testimony
Reza Fani/Monireh Baradaran/ABF English translation
June 5, 2008
An Indictment Against My Own Conscience
Ladan Boroumand
April 18, 2008
A Political Prisoner Binds his Lips Together
Abdorrahman Boroumand Foundation
February 13, 2008
To Object to My [Detention] Condition I Have No Choice But to Bind My Lips together
Babak Dadbakhsh
January 15, 2008
A Protest Letter Against Ill Treatment in Ward 8 Of The Evin Prison
Majid Tavakoli
November 23, 2007
To Torture A Prisoner Is to Torture Humanity: A Letter From Farzad Kamangar, A Political Prisoner
Farzad Kamangarّ/ English Translation by ABF
November 23, 2007
AN APPEAL TO THE AUTHORITIES BY MOTHERS OF DETAINEES ACCUSED AS "HOOLIGANS"
Mothers of defendants accused of "hooliganism"/ABF translation
July 23, 2007
State Violence Against Homosexuals in Iran : Interview With Two Victims
Arsham Parsi/English translation ABF
July 21, 2007
ALL WOMEN ARE VICTIMS, NOT JUST THOSE IN PRISON
Mahboubeh Hosseinzadeh/translation Sussan Tahmasebi
April 11, 2007
BAHÁ'Í SCHOOLCHILDREN IN IRAN INCREASINGLY HARASSED AND ABUSED BY SCHOOL AUTHORITIES
Ms. Bani Dugal
April 5, 2007
IRAN STEPS UP SECRET MONITORING OF BAHÁ’ÍS
Bahá'í International Community
November 2, 2006
Mohammad Ali Sawari: Judge Sha'bani Deprived Me of My Right To Counsel
Mohammah Ali Sawari/ABF translation
September 14, 2006
Grievance Letter from Prison by Behruz Javid Tehrani
Behruz Javid Tehrani/ABF translation
June 25, 2006
Ahvaz (Iran): Attorneys Protest Against the Denial of Defendant's rights (2006)
Seven Iranian Attorneys/ABF translation
May 25, 2006
BEING A POLITICAL PRISONER IN THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN
Roya Toloui
January 27, 2006
"They'll Kill Me"– A Gay Iranian Torture Victim Speaks
Interview by: Doug Ireland
September 20, 2005
OPEN LETTER TO THE HEAD OF THE JUDICIARY
َAli Afshari
August 17, 2005
Good Night Comrade, 1988 Mass Execution of Political Prisoners in Racht
Ahmad Musavi
March 1, 2004
Report to the Nation
Parastou Forouhar/ABF English Translation
November 22, 2002
Open Letter From Parastou Forouhar on Extrajudicial Killings of 1998
Parastou Forouhar
November 1, 2002
I Cannot Forgive
Majid Naficy
October 31, 2002
MY PEN CRIES OUT TO THE WORLD: IS THERE A FREEDOM LOVER IN THE WORLD WHO WILL HEED MY CALL FOR HELP?
Manouchehr Mohammadi
June 1, 2002
LETTER TO THE HEAD OF THE JUDICIARY
Ahmad Batebi
March 23, 2000
Navid Mogharab, Student Plaintiff in the 1999 Tehran University Dormitory Attack Case, Recounts Failure of Justice
ISNA / Translation by Abdorrahman Boroumand Center
March 13, 2000
Iran 1999: Universities Under Attack, A Witness Testimony
Peyam Emruz
July 1, 1999
WOULD THERE BE ANOTHER VISIT?
Mahin Esmati
January 1, 1997
KHAVARAN ROSE GARDEN, THE STORY OF A MASS GRAVE
M. Raha
January 1, 1997
IN IRAN, THEY EVEN TORTURE CHILDREN
Helmut Szimkus
July 11, 1994
Kianoori's Open Letter to Aytollah Ali Khamenei
nouradin Kianouri
February 5, 1990
LETTER FROM TWO PRISONERS TO THE RRESIDENT OF THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC
Morteza Karbassi Zadeheh Esfahani, and Sadr-el-Deeneh Moshkati
January 13, 1981
An Unusual Trial in Abstentia : Defendants in Prison and Attorney Not Informed Of the Trial Date
Jahangir Mostofi the defendants' attorney
September 23, 1979
YOU EXECUTED AN INNOCENT MAN!
The family of Captain Monir Taheri
February 25, 1979