FDI Report on the assassination of Iranian Dissidents

The leaked "confessions" of Saeed Emami regarding the chain murders.

• 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.

• Read the trial transcript [PDF]
  
• Read the trial brief [PDF]
  
• More documents

• 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:
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  • 2011
    
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• International Religious Freedom report (Iran)
• 2011 report
  
• State sponsors of terrorism (link to 2011 report).
  
• Complete 2011 report (PDF)
  
• 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:
  • Oct. 15, 1997 report by Special Rapporteur Maurice Copithorne
  • Feb.11, 1997 report by Special Rapporteur Maurice Copithorne
  • March 21, 1996 report by Special Rapporteur Maurice Copithorne
  • Other UN documents on Human Rights in Iran

• 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
  • letter of support for Faraj Sarkouhi
• 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
  • appendix documenting victims of "hit squads," 1979-1996
• 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