Witness Statement of Alireza Kiani
In this witness statement, Alireza Kiani—a student activist—discusses his involvement in different student activist organizations in Iran and his arrest, imprisonment and eventual escape from Iran in...
View ArticleWitness Statement of Saied Alboghbaysh
In this witness statement, Saied Alboghbaysh, a co-founder of the al-Hiwar Cultural Institute, discusses his arrest, detention and torture in 2011. Five of the other co-founders of al-Hiwar who were...
View ArticleWitness Statement of Karim Dahimi
In this witness statement, Ahwazi Arab activist Karim Dahimi discusses his two arrests in 1992 and 2005, and the general state of human rights in Khuzestan in that time period.
View ArticleWitness Testimony of Omidreza Pourmohammadali Farashah
(September 30, 2013) - In this witness statement, Omidreza Pourmohammadali Farashah – a blogger and Green Movement activist – discusses his involvement in the post-June 2009 election protests in Iran....
View ArticleWitness Statement of Ehsan
(September 30, 2013) – In this witness statement, Ehsan—a homosexual Iranian—describes how the authorities discovered his sexual orientation after he was arrested at a Green Movement protest in 2011,...
View ArticleWitness Statement of Zaynab Bayazidi
(September 30, 2013) -- In her first, full-length witness interview since her escape from Iran, former political prisoner Zaynab Bayazidi--a Kurdish women's rights and children's rights...
View ArticleWitness Statement of Mehdi Nozar
(October 15, 2013) – In this witness testimony, Mehdi Nozar – a legal expert in the Cultural Heritage Organization and a Green Movement activist – discusses the rampant mismanagement in the Cultural...
View ArticleWitness Statement of Shiva: An Iranian Transsexual
(November 19, 2013) - In this witness statement, Shiva describes the abuse she was subjected to as a male to female transsexual in Tabriz, including lashings and custodial rape. She also discusses her...
View ArticleWitness Statement of Gholamreza Gholamhosseini: A labor union activist
(December 26, 2013) - In this witness statement, Gholamreza Gholamhosseini – a former bus driver – discusses his union activities in the Workers Syndicate of the United Bus Company of Tehran and...
View ArticleWitness Statement of Akan
In this witness statement, Akan, a transgender Iranian who was routinely physically abused by his father, discusses the difficulties he faced as a transgender person living in Iran.
View ArticleWitness Statement of Mahan
In this witness statement, Mahan, a gay Iranian, describes his arrest, detention and sentencing after he was arrested at a party attended by LGBT individuals in Shiraz.
View ArticleWitness Statement of Milad
In this witness statement, Milad, a gay Iranian, explains how he was mistreated by Iranian authorities after being arrested at a party in which most guests were gay men.
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