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Condemned by
Law: Assassination of Political Dissidents Abroad |
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The Iranian
regime’s state-sponsored campaign of political assassinations abroad
does not merely violate the criminal laws of the jurisdictions in
which the crimes took place – it also implicates an array of
international legal norms and obligations. This report aims to
supplement the two previous reports, Murder at Mykonos: Anatomy of a
Political Assassination (2007), and No Safe Haven: Iran’s Global
Assassination Campaign (2008) in order to construct a powerful and
comprehensive indictment of the Iranian regime’s assassinations
abroad based on the rule of law.
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Mockery of
Justice: The Framing of Siamak Pourzand |
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Mr. Siamak Pourzand, a journalist
in his 70s, was abducted in November 2001 by IRI officials, held in
a series of secret detention facilities, and then forced to make a
televised confession to a number of serious offences he had not
committed. Throughout his ordeal, the courts colluded in his
mistreatment. The case against Mr. Pourzand was manufactured and
exploited by hard-line conservatives in Iran's clerical
establishment in order to discredit members of the reform movement.
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No Safe Haven:
Iran's Global
Assassination Campaign |
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Since 1979, the senior leadership of
the Islamic Republic of Iran has been linked to at least 162
extrajudicial killings of the regime’s political opponents in 19
different countries around the world. These operations flourished in
contravention of both international and national legal regimes, and
were planned at the highest levels of state. Many of those
responsible are still in power today.
The IHRDC’s new report
is the most authoritative study of
Iran’s global campaign of political assassination to appear to date.
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Community Under
Siege: The Ordeal of the
Baha’is of Shiraz |
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The sentencing of twenty-two members of the Baha'i community of
Shiraz to death for refusing to recant their faith in 1983 resulted
in the largest mass execution of Iranian Baha’is since the Islamic
Revolution. Many other members of the community were also imprisoned
and abused. The ordeal of the Baha’is of Shiraz is emblematic of the
treatment of the Baha'i Faith by the Islamic authorities in Iran.
This report exposes the religious of intolerance of the Islamic
Republic and puts a human face on the suffering of a community still
under siege today.
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Murder at Mykonos:
Anatomy of a Political Assassination |
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In September 1992
agents of the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) murdered three
leading members of the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan (PDKI)
in the Mykonos Restaurant in Berlin. The attack was one of a
series of assassinations designed to intimidate and disrupt the
activities of political opponents of the Islamic Republic. The
arrest and trial of several Mykonos perpetrators provides a unique
insight into this campaign. The IHRDC has sifted through all this
material, and has conducted additional research of its own, to
produce the first comprehensive publicly available report on the
Mykonos case to appear in either English or Farsi.
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A Faith
Denied: The Persecution of the Baha'is of Iran |
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This report explores how Baha'i religious practice has effectively
been criminalized inside Iran. Baha’is are subjected to a level of
social exclusion and harassment in Iran that shocks the conscience
and A Faith Denied illuminates the persistent role played by the
clerical establishment in perpetuating such abuse. Community leaders
have been murdered and sites of irreplaceable religious significance
destroyed. The report finds rising levels of persecution since the
2005 election of President Ahmadinejad and resurgence of other
conservative political figures.
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Impunity in Iran: The
Death of Photojournalist Zahra Kazemi |
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This report explores the ways in which the 2003 death of Iranian -
Canadian photo journalist Zahra ( Ziba ) Kazemi illustrates chronic,
systemic problems in Iran's law enforcement and justice systems. The
report examines specific violations of Iranian and international law
that occurred in the Kazemi case and identifies numerous structural
impediments to accountability for human rights violations in Iran,
concluding that significant reform of the judicial system is needed
to counter ongoing impunity for violators.
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