NewsIran’s empty promise to free political prisonersIn September, as newly elected Iranian president Hassan Rouhani was on his way to the United Nations General Assembly in New...
UncategorizedIran’s 1980s massacre of political prisoners exposedThe Iran Tribunal — a sort of people’s truth commission that doesn’t have any legal standing — has released an interim...
UncategorizedCarleton University teams up with Iranian embassy to honour Ayatollah KhomeiniCarleton University in Ottawa last weekend hosted a pro-Islamic Republic of Iran propaganda event sponsored in part by the Iranian...
Uncategorized"Every time I answered ’Kurdish,’ they beat me ..."The Iran Human Rights Documentation Center today released a report on the treatment of Kurdish activists in Iran. The following is...
UncategorizedCIDA, DFAIT, and promoting democracy abroadLast year’s revolutions of the Arab Spring were, and remain, the greatest opportunity for the global growth of democracy since...
UncategorizedMaking Iran pay for abusing human rightsWhy challenging Iran over its nuclear program isn’t enough
UncategorizedIslamic Human Rights Commission sees no evil in IranLet’s pretend for a moment that the London-based Islamic Human Rights Commission , an...
Uncategorized"Death to dictatorship"The Iran Human Rights Documentation Center has published a comprehensive report on Iran’s rigged presidential election and the...
UncategorizedObama’s new policy on Iran: Don’t mention the tortureFor five years, the Iran Human Rights Documentation Center , co-founded by McGill international law professor Payam Akhavan, has...
UncategorizedIran’s stolen election: the human rights falloutThe Iran Human Rights Documentation Center has released its latest report.