Human Rights & Democracy for Iran
A project of the Abdorrahman Boroumand Foundation

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Authorization Denied: The high cost of the public expression of dissent in Iran

2009: “In the most savage attack, which occurred on the evening of Sunday, June 13, the forces of Ansar, plainclothes militia, and the guards began a widespread and well-coordinated attack on the Tehran University campus...”.

-Statement by one of the Iran's Student Unions, June 16, 2009.

Following the June 12, 2009, presidential elections in the Islamic Republic of Iran, a new episode of massive human rights violations unfolded before the world.

Students were among the first to protest these election results. They were also the first to be targeted by government forces.

This is not the first time students have been punished for expressing their views or for protesting in public. Ten years ago today (July 9th, 2009)...

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A Story from the Memorial

Mehdi Dibaj

Occupation: clergy

Religion: Christianity

Nationality: Iran

The information about the extrajudicial killing of Pastor Mehdi Dibaj is drawn from a report by Amnesty International published in 1995 and his defense before the Islamic Revolutionary Tribunal of Sari posted on the internet... (read more...)

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