مرکز اسناد حقوق بشر ایران Iran Human Rights Documentation Center

مرکز اسناد حقوق بشر ایران Iran Human Rights Documentation Center

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واقعی بودن یک ویدیو به این معنا نیست که انتشار آن بی‌خطر است. حتی پس از پوشاندن چهره، صدا، لباس، نمای پنجره، نام محله یا زمان انتشار ممکن است هویت یک فرد را آشکار کند.

در آخرین قسمت مجموعه «پروتکل برکلی» درباره حفاظت از هویت، ارزیابی خطر، سلامت روان پژوهشگران و گزارش‌نویسی مسئولانه صحبت می‌کنیم. عمومی بودن یک محتوا نیز به معنای مجاز بودن هر نوع جمع‌آوری، بازنشر یا شناسایی نیست.

پروتکل برکلی پذیرش شواهد یا محکومیت ناقضان حقوق بشر در دادگاه را تضمین نمی‌کند؛ اما کیفیت تحقیق و امکان ارزیابی آن را افزایش می‌دهد.

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مرکز اسناد حقوق بشر ایران Iran Human Rights Documentation Center

Four years ago, Mahsa (Jina) Amini died in the custody of Iran’s morality police, on September 16, 2022. Her death sparked nationwide protests and a movement that demanded an end to the Islamic Republic’s repression.

Four years later, IHRDC examines the killings of girls and young women during the protests that followed. Based on independently confirmed cases, our analysis documents the scale and patterns of these killings. The actual number is likely higher.

No one has been held accountable for these killings. Meanwhile, enforcement of compulsory hijab has returned to the streets of Iran.

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#MahsaAmini
#JinaAmini
#WomanLifeFreedom
#Iran
#HumanRights
#ThroughHerEyes
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#DayOfTheGirl

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مرکز اسناد حقوق بشر ایران Iran Human Rights Documentation Center

Sevda Akrami Fard was only 16.

On the night of January 9, 2026, before leaving to join the protests in Marlik, Malard in Alborz Province, she told her mother, “I may not come back.”

Hours later, she was shot and killed. Her family searched for days before finally finding her body among the many bodies of protesters killed and transferred to Kahrizak.

But the pressure on her family did not end with Sevda’s death—from restrictions on her burial and memorial ceremonies to the detention of family members and threats to exhume her body.

Sevda dreamed of a free Iran and of one day celebrating freedom alongside the families of those who had lost their lives.

She is gone. But her story must be told and documented.

For truth. For justice. For accountability.

@iranhrdc
#ThroughHerEyes
#InternationalDayOfTheGirl
#DayOfTheGirl
#January2026Protests
#BloodyJanuary
#Iran
#HumanRights

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How do you repay a debt from behind bars?

Nasim describes being imprisoned after going bankrupt, while Maryam recounts her father’s time in prison. Their stories, shared under pseudonyms, are part of the Iran Human Rights Documentation Center’s collection of testimonies on debtor imprisonment.

Explore the full testimonies and data on the Iran Human Rights Documentation Center’s page.

88,078 represents the total number of reported releases across 31 provinces during Iranian calendar years 2016/17–2025/26. This figure may include duplicate counts and does not represent the number of people currently imprisoned for debt.

@iranhrdc
#humanrights
#DebtorImprisonment
#WitnessTestimonies
#EconomicJustice
#iran

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مرکز اسناد حقوق بشر ایران Iran Human Rights Documentation Center

The IHRDC Debtor Imprisonment's Data Hub documents how unpaid debt, dishonored checks, and related non-intentional financial offenses have led to imprisonment across Iran. Drawing on data from the past three decades, the hub highlights the human rights implications of financial incarceration and provides a clearer picture of who is affected, where cases are reported, and why debt should not lead to prison.

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#DebtorImprisonment_InIran
#DebtorImprisonment
#FinancialPrisoners
#HumanRightsData
#HumanRights
#Iran
#IranHRDC

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Accountability for Atrocities in Iran: Justice for the Victims of the 2026 Crackdown

Join us live from the 63rd session of the UN Human Rights Council for testimony from families of victims and a discussion with leading human rights experts on ongoing violations in Iran and pathways toward accountability.

Watch the live broadcast on X: @IHRDC

Turn on notifications and join us at 13:00 CET.

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#HumanRights
#Accountability
#UNHRC
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What is gender apartheid?

It is more than discrimination.

Gender apartheid refers to inhumane acts—including legislative and non-legislative measures—that prevent women and girls from participating in the political, social, economic, and cultural life of a country, or deliberately create conditions that hinder their full development.

These acts may include the severe deprivation or restriction of fundamental rights and freedoms, such as:

• The right to work and education
• The right to citizenship
• Freedom of movement and residence
• Freedom of thought and expression
• Freedom of peaceful assembly and association
• The right to participate in public and political life

The key distinction?

Gender apartheid exists when such acts are carried out within an institutionalized system of oppression and domination of one gender group over another, with the intent to maintain that system.

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Afghanistan: Two Legal Paths to Accountability for Gender-Based Persecution

The Taliban’s system of restrictions on women and girls in Afghanistan has prompted action through two distinct international legal pathways.

In July 2025, the International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for Taliban Supreme Leader Haibatullah Akhundzada and Chief Justice Abdul Hakim Haqqani, finding reasonable grounds to believe that they bear criminal responsibility for the persecution of women and girls on gender grounds, among others.

Separately, Australia, Canada, Germany, and the Netherlands have initiated proceedings against Afghanistan under the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), alleging widespread and systematic violations of women’s rights.

Neither proceeding is formally brought as a case of “gender apartheid.” The term is not currently recognized as a standalone crime under the Rome Statute.

Yet Afghanistan has become a central case in the growing international debate over whether and how gender apartheid should be recognized in international law.

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#ThroughHerEyes
#InternationalDayOfTheGirl
#DayOfTheGirl
#GenderApartheid
#Afghanistan
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مرکز اسناد حقوق بشر ایران Iran Human Rights Documentation Center

Ten people. Ten real stories. All imprisoned over debt—construction loans, bounced cheques, unpaid mehriyeh—under laws that jail people for being unable to pay, collected and documented by IHRDC.

https://iranhrdc.org/category/english/publications/witness-testimony/

Case 07 — Hamid (pseudonym)

After 12 years of marriage, Hamid’s life became consumed by court proceedings and multiple episodes of imprisonment over a mehriyeh of 350 gold coins. Now separated from his wife, he has managed to pay only four of the 350 coins. “There are no winners in court,” he says. “Both sides lose.”

This is one of ten real testimonies we're publishing on debtor imprisonment in Iran. Read Hamid’s full account here:

https://iranhrdc.org/witness-statement-of-hamid/

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#Iran
#HumanRights
#HumanRightsInIran
#ImprisonmentForDebt
#WitnessTestimony
#EconomicJustice
#IHRDC

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Iran: When Does Discrimination Become a System?

In Iran, gender-based inequality is embedded in law and reinforced by institutions that regulate women’s and girls’ family lives, movement, appearance, education, employment, and participation in public life. Then look at enforcement.

Compulsory hijab is not simply a rule on paper. Women and girls who challenge it have faced surveillance, arrest, detention, violence, prosecution, and other forms of coercion. And when women resist, gender-based restrictions can intersect with a broader machinery of repression, including arbitrary detention, torture, enforced disappearance, and other serious human rights violations.

This raises a deeper legal question: “Do discriminatory laws, state institutions, coercive enforcement, and repression operate together to create and maintain a system of gender-based domination?”

That is where the concept of gender apartheid becomes legally significant.

Gender apartheid is not currently recognized as a standalone crime under the Rome Statute. But CEDAW’s General Recommendation No. 40 calls for the codification of gender apartheid as a crime under international law, including through the Draft Crimes Against Humanity Convention currently under negotiation.

For Iran, the question is therefore not only whether discrimination exists. It is whether law, institutions, and coercive enforcement work together to sustain a system of gender-based domination—and whether international law is equipped to hold those responsible to account.

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#ThroughHerEyes
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#DayOfTheGirl
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مرکز اسناد حقوق بشر ایران Iran Human Rights Documentation Center

Ten people. Ten real stories. All imprisoned over debt—construction loans, bounced cheques, unpaid mehriyeh—under laws that jail people for being unable to pay, collected and documented by IHRDC.

https://iranhrdc.org/category/english/publications/witness-testimony/

Case 08 — Borna (pseudonym)

Borna was a laborer who spent three years in prison despite being found unable to pay his wife’s mehriyeh. Overwhelmed by despair, he attempted suicide by jumping from the fourth floor and barely survived. He has since spent years living in hiding and isolation.

This is one of ten real testimonies we're publishing on debtor imprisonment in Iran. Read Borna’s full account here:

https://iranhrdc.org/witness-statement-of-borna/

@iranhrdc
#Iran
#HumanRights
#HumanRightsInIran
#ImprisonmentForDebt
#WitnessTestimony
#EconomicJustice
#IHRDC

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مرکز اسناد حقوق بشر ایران Iran Human Rights Documentation Center

Ten people. Ten real stories. All imprisoned over debt—construction loans, bounced cheques, unpaid mehriyeh—under laws that jail people for being unable to pay, collected and documented by IHRDC.

https://iranhrdc.org/category/english/publications/witness-testimony/

Case 09 — Bahram (pseudonym)

Ten years after his divorce, the threat of imprisonment still hung over Bahram’s life. His family paid five gold coins to secure his release after seven months in Evin Prison, but living expenses and the birth of his child left him unable to keep up with the installments. At the time this testimony was recorded, he was 11 gold coins behind on his payments and living in hiding for fear of being arrested again.

This is one of ten real testimonies we're publishing on debtor imprisonment in Iran. Read Bahram’s full account here:

https://iranhrdc.org/witness-statement-of-bahram/

@iranhrdc
#Iran
#HumanRights
#HumanRightsInIran
#ImprisonmentForDebt
#WitnessTestimony
#EconomicJustice
#IHRDC

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مرکز اسناد حقوق بشر ایران Iran Human Rights Documentation Center

Iran is confronting one of the most difficult periods in its recent history. Following the massacre of protesters in January 2026, one round of armed conflict in 2025, and the war that began in February 2026, the country has faced prolonged internet shutdowns, severe economic disruption, high inflation, currency depreciation, and growing difficulties accessing basic necessities.

Children are among those most vulnerable to these consequences.

Over the past year, schools have repeatedly been closed or moved online amid protests, insecurity, and war. Yet for months, Iran also experienced a near-total internet shutdown. Although authorities relied on domestic platforms to continue education, these services were often unavailable or unreliable. For millions of children, weeks and months passed without meaningful access to school.

For children without reliable internet, devices, or adequate learning conditions at home, “online education” was not an equivalent substitute for the classroom. It was exclusion from education.

The economic crisis has added another burden. As schools reopen, many families are struggling to afford books, supplies, transportation, clothing, and other necessities—at a time when some are already struggling to secure adequate food and nutrition.

Article 30 of Iran’s Constitution requires the government to provide free education through secondary school. Yet the reality facing many families is very different.

The Iranian state has a responsibility to protect the lives, well-being, education, and development of children living under its authority—during times of crisis as well as in times of stability.

Children did not create Iran’s political conflicts, wars, economic crisis, or uncertainty. But they are living with the consequences.

Their losses today will shape Iran’s future tomorrow.

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#ChildrensRights
#CRC
#Iran
#AlternativeReport
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مرکز اسناد حقوق بشر ایران Iran Human Rights Documentation Center

Ten people. Ten real stories. All imprisoned over debt—construction loans, bounced cheques, unpaid mehriyeh—under laws that jail people for being unable to pay, collected and documented by IHRDC.

https://iranhrdc.org/category/english/publications/witness-testimony/

Case 10 — Ali (pseudonym)

Just one week after his wedding, Ali received notice of his wife’s claim for mehriyeh, which he says she had initiated before the wedding. The start of their married life marked the beginning of years of legal battles involving dozens of court cases. His bank accounts were frozen, and a travel ban prevented him from taking up his scholarship.

This is one of ten real testimonies we're publishing on debtor imprisonment in Iran. Read Ali’s full account here:

https://iranhrdc.org/witness-statement-of-ali/

@iranhrdc
#Iran
#HumanRights
#HumanRightsInIran
#ImprisonmentForDebt
#WitnessTestimony
#EconomicJustice
#IHRDC

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مرکز اسناد حقوق بشر ایران Iran Human Rights Documentation Center

Setayesh Golshani was three years old when persecution forced her family to leave Iran. A year later, she arrived in Australia with her parents by ship and was transferred to the offshore asylum processing centre on Nauru.

She spent more than two years in detention before being released into community detention in Brisbane.

As she grew older, Setayesh found strength through taekwondo. The sport became her refuge — a place where she could focus, compete and begin to imagine a future of her own. By sixteen, she had become a multi-award-winning athlete.

But the uncertainty of her childhood continues to shape her life. Her immigration status limits her opportunities to compete internationally, study and build a secure future in Australia. Although she was recognized as a refugee in 2019, her status remains unresolved.

Setayesh continues to advocate for the chance to remain in Australia, where she has grown up and built her life. She also fears returning to Iran, where she says she could face persecution as a young woman and apostate.

Her journey is one of a girl who has faced extraordinary challenges and refused to let them define her. Through taekwondo, she has found strength, purpose and a voice of her own.

Now, she is fighting for the opportunity to turn that hard-won strength into a future.

@iranhrdc
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#InternationalDayOfTheGirl
#DayOfTheGirl
#Setayesh_Golshani
#RefugeeVoices
#Nauru
#Iran
#humanrights

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