- FDI activities
- The Akbar Mohammadi trial.
FDI CEO and president Kenneth R. Timmerman was a key witness during the April 3, 2013 court proceedings against the Islamic Republic and its top leadership for the torture and wrongful death of student activist Akbar Mohammadi in 2006.
- UN Rapporteur Ahmed Shaheed:
- March 2013 report [download PDF]
- Supplement to March 2013 report, with information on religious persecution
- March 2012 report (link)
- United States Department of State
- Human rights reports on Iran:
- International Religious Freedom report (Iran)
- State sponsors of terrorism (link to 2011 report).
- Patterns of Global Terrorism
- 1997: Overview of State-sponsored terrorism (April 1998 report)
- 1997: Group profiles (April 1998)
- 1996: Overview of State-sponsored terrorism (April 1997 report)
- 1996: Group profiles (April 1997)
- Canadian parliament report on Ahmadinejad's human rights abuses (2010)
- UNICEF Iran page (new in 2007)
- Iran Human Rights Documentation Center
- Amnesty International's Iran Page
- "We are Ordered to Crush You," 2012 report on torture in prisons
- "From Protest to Prison: One Year after the election," 2010 report
- Summary of the Iran Section from the 2005 AI Annual Report
- AI Report on jailed journalist/writer Siamak Pourzand
- UK Home office 2005 report on Iran human rights violations and organizations
- Older reports from the United Nations Human Rights Commission:
- Human Rights Watch Iran Page
- UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights
- National Endowment for Democracy (our initial funder)
Archived FDI Human Rights Memoranda
- Jan. 2, 2001: Regime condemned in yet another U.S. terror trial.
- April 24, 2000: Press closures and arrests show limits of Khatami reforms
- Nov. 21, 1999: Statement on the 1st anniversary of the Forouhar murders.
- July 23, 1999: FDI Calls on the IRI to release jailed student leaders
- Nov. 22, 1998: Leading Iranian opposition leader brutally murdered in Tehran.
- Oct. 9, 1998: French Imprison Iranian Opposition Activist
- Jan. 1, 1998: Khatami seeks end to sanctions, not dialogue
- Dec. 4, 1997: Attacks against senior clerics are only the beginning
- July 23, 1997: FDI Warns Congressmen about Iranian Mujahidin
- May 25, 1997: Iranian elections show thirst for freedom
- April 24, 1997: Terrorist threat continues
- April 10, 1997: Mykonos verdict confirms Tehran's terror
- February 4, 1997: Sarkuhi arrest is slap in the face to Germany
- December 20, 1996: Situation remains tense in Kermanshah
- December 4, 1996: Violent demonstrations reported in Kermanshah
- November 15, 1996: Attacks on writers suggest the return of "death squads"
- November 13, 1996: Iranian writer kidnapped and believed murdered
- November 11, 1996: Factional dispute disguised as drug and espionage arrests
- November 11, 1996: Another Sunnite cleric murdered in Balouchistan
- November 7, 1996: Belgian Refugees threatened with expulsion
- November 7, 1996: Kurds and journalists are the latest victims of "Critical Dialogue"
- October 25, 1996: U.S. "Dialogue" must emphasize human rights and democracy
- September 9, 1996: FDI Calls on Belgian Government not to Deport Asylum Seekers
- August 30, 1996: FDI deplores arrest of INP activist
- August 30, 1996: FDI seeks information on Baha'i refugees
- August 12, 1996: FDI calls on Islamic republic to release clerics
- August 9, 1996: FDI condemns Iranian attacks on Kurdish civilians, calls for UN action
- June 29, 1996: Slaying of Iranian Kurdish Fighters by Turkish Army
- June 21, 1996: Crackdown on Clerical and Political Opposition Activists
- May 28, 1996: FDI condemns EU laxism for Mazlouman assassination
- May 23, 1996: FDI denounces persecution of Baha'is
- May 18, 1996: Tabriz executions
- May 6, 1996: FDI releases report on assassinations
- March 7, 1996: Support for Terrorism
- March 7, 1996: Letter from Amir Entezam
- March 3, 1996: Repression and killings in Iranian Balouchistan
- February 15, 1996: Disappearance and alleged execution of Molavi Ahmad Sayyad
- February 7, 1996: FDI warns against "Sham" elections
- December 12, 1995: Execution of alleged drug traffickers and "bandits"
- December 7, 1995: Religious arrests continue
- October 22, 1995: New Security Law Violates Human Rights
- October 20, 1995: Execution and arrest of Kurds in Iran
- September 21, 1995: Disappearance of Javad Rouhani, aged 26, and at least 25 others