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Iran Human Rights Project
Holding Tehran Accountable for a Record of Abuse
Iran’s leaders continually abuse the rights of their people through de jure and de facto laws that suppress their citizens’ basic freedoms. Censorship, violent arrests, and the increasing use of the death penalty are just a few of the tactics used by the Iranian regime to crackdown on its people, while homosexuals and religious minorities, particularly members of the Baha’i faith, are targeted with special ferocity. Although the UN appointed a special rapporteur on Iran in March 2011, he has been denied access to the country, signaling an even further decline in Iran’s human rights conditions.
FDD’s Iran Human Rights Project is a multi-tiered program to hold the Iranian regime accountable for its human rights violations by exposing its abusers and facilitators and giving voice to its victims.
Wahied Wahdat-Hagh also contributes to this project.
Why Iran’s Elections Will Not Be Democratic
Six hundred and eighty six Iranian citizens have registered as candidates for the eleventh presidential elections scheduled to be held in Iran on Friday, June 14, 2013. more...
Report Finds Iran Among Worst Violators of Religious Freedom
Religious freedom is in short supply in the Middle East, according to the bipartisan U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, which has issued a report finding Iran chief... more...
A Third Way to Address the Iranian Threat
With an Iranian presidential election coming in June, President Obama may be presented with a second chance to get his policy right. In 2009, when massive protests followed Iran's disputed presidential vote... more...
Gay—or Left?
On July 19, 2005, authorities in the Iranian city of Mashhad publicly lynched two teenagers, Mahmoud Asgari and Ayaz Marhoni, for the alleged crime of raping a 13-year-old boy. Horrific pictures of the execution... more...
Nursing Mothers Imprisoned: UN Report Details Iranian Persecution of Non-Muslims
Iran’s hard-line regime has intensified its violent crackdown on Christians and other religious minorities, even imprisoning nursing mothers for practicing their faith, according to a new... more...
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