Witness Statement of Mahan
In this witness statement, Mahan, a gay Iranian, describes his arrest, detention and sentencing after he was arrested at a party attended by LGBT individuals in Shiraz.
View ArticleWitness Statement of Milad
In this witness statement, Milad, a gay Iranian, explains how he was mistreated by Iranian authorities after being arrested at a party in which most guests were gay men.
View ArticleWitness Statement of Radman
In his Witness Statement, Radman, a gay Iranian, discusses how he was extorted after his neighbor saw him and his partner having sexual relations. Radman also speaks about the process of obtaining an...
View ArticleWitness Statement of Ako
In this Witness Statement, Ako, a gay Iranian, explains how his life was dramatically changed after his neighbor, a Revolutionary Guard officer, found a private video on Ako’s computer.
View ArticleWitness Statement of Masumeh Ka’abi
In this witness statement, Masumeh Ka’abi—an Ahwazi Arab housewife—recounts her arbitrary arrest, interrogation and imprisonment by intelligence agents of the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) over...
View ArticleWitness Statement of Raha
In this Witness Statement, Raha, an Iranian lesbian, describes the ordeals she faced in school as well as the harsh treatment she received in her family. Raha, who lived with her uncle’s family, fled...
View ArticleWitness Statement of Ahmad Khalili
In this witness statement, Ahmad Khalili—a member of the Ahwazi Arab ethnic minority in Iran—recalls his father’s imprisonment on political grounds, as well as the discrimination he and his family...
View ArticleWitness Statement of Farhad Sarhangi
In this witness statement, Farhad Sarhangi—a former Kurdish peshmerga—recalls his numerous arrests and imprisonments in Iran in the early 1980s. He also details the Iranian state’s execution of his...
View ArticleWitness Statement of Hamed Saati
In this witness statement, Hamed Saati—an Iranian Kurd now living in Sweden—describes the Kurdish reaction to the 1979 referendum on creating an Islamic Republic, as well as the Iranian central...
View ArticleWitness Statement of Farkhondeh
In this witness statement, Farkhondeh—a Kurdish homemaker—describes the execution of her son by Iranian authorities a year after the Iranian Revolution of 1979. She also describes her own detention in...
View ArticleWitness Statement of Maruf Kabi
In this witness statement, Maruf Kabi—an Iranian Kurd—recounts the Iranian government’s execution of his two sisters, Nasrin Kabi and Shahla Kabi, in 1980. The ladies were nurses at a hospital in...
View ArticleWitness Statement of Aziz Mamleh
In this witness statement, Aziz Mamleh—an attorney and representative of the Kurdish Democratic Party of Iran (KDPI)—describes the high-level negotiations for peace between representatives of the...
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