Iran

Thousands of human rights violations including executions, extra-judicial executions, disappearances, and torture have been reported against citizens of the Islamic Republic of Iran since the revolution in 1979.

In 2002, HRDAG started working with The Abdorrahman Boroumand Foundation (ABF) for the Promotion of Human Rights and Democracy in Iran on a web-based human rights project. ABF is named in memory of Dr. Abdorrahman Boroumand, an Iranian lawyer and pro-democracy activist who was assassinated allegedly by the agents of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Paris on April 18, 1991. ABF's project involves two bilingual (English and Farsi) databases to document human rights violations in an on-line memorial, Omid,and to generate an online library focusing on human rights and democracy in Iran.

The ABF is using the Analyzer database to collect data for Omid. Analyzer enables the ABF to process a mass of overlapping information to help create records on victims that are as accurate and detailed as the data permit. ABF have collected information relating to over 25 years of human rights violations in English and Farsi from Iranian newspapers, victims' families, and exiled opposition party records about killings committed by the revolutionary government of Iran since 1979. There are more than 9,000 victims documented in the database. All available sources are recorded ensuring that the reported data can be traced to its sources. The stories of the victims are now available to the public through the Omid memorial.

Originally based at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), HRDAG has provided technical assistance in the following countries:

Africa

• Chad
• Ghana
• Liberia
• Sierra Leone
• South Africa

Asia

• Afghanistan
• Bangladesh
• Cambodia
• Timor-Leste
• Sri Lanka

Europe

• Kosovo

Middle East

• Iran

Central America and Caribbean

• El Salvador
• Guatemala
• Haiti
• México

South America

• Colombia
• Perú

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