Research topic
Human Rights Advocacy
Boroumand L., Paris. Imprimerie Corlet, 1983.
Published in Paris, this is the first human rights report I published as a student member of National Movement of the Iranian Resistance (Namir), led by Chapour Bakhtiar, the last Prime Minister of Iran before the establishment of the Islamic Republic. At the time we made a point to stress the forgotten universality of human rights and defend the rights of all Iranians no matter their religion, political leanings, and sexual orientation.
Boroumand L., Le Monde, 22 June 1991
In the wake of the assassination of my father by the agents of the Islamic Republic in Iran, I published this piece in the daily Le Monde to protest against the French government’s leniency toward Iranian authorities’ terrorist activities abroad.
Boroumand L.,Washington Post, June 17th, 2005.
Boroumand L., April 18, 2008
I wrote this piece on the occasion of the 17th Anniversary of the Assassination of my father Abdorrahman Boroumand, by the agents of the Islamic Republic of Iran. A reflection on the moral duties of citizens vis-a-vis state violence.
Boroumand L., MCReview, Summer of 2008
Article
Iran: une innocente contre un assassin ou la récompense du terrorisme (Iran: Exchanging a Murderer for an Innocent or Terrorism Rewarded )
Boroumand L., Le Monde, September 22, 2009
In this op-ed I strongly advise against the exchange of a French innocent student taken hostage by the Islamic government of Iran- for the early release of the killer who assassinated former Prime Minister of Iran, Chapour Bakhtiar, in Paris in 1991. I warned French authorities that such deal is an authorization for more hostage taking. As of February 2020 two French scholars are taken hostage by the Iranian government. (in French)
Boroumand L., Iran Human Rights Review, The Foreign Policy Center, London, February, 2017.
This article contains an enumeration and analysis of the Islamic Republic’s judiciary’s structural and systemic shortcomings, which result in the recurring miscarriages of justice in Iran.
Background
In the confrontation between Iran’s pro-democracy activists and its Islamist state, the government’s arsenal is made of violence and lies. Violence seeks to spread fear and silence dissent through detention, torture, and executions. Our enemies’ arsenal is terrifying, and we, at first glance, seem powerless in comparison. But in reality we are stronger, for we have the truth. Faced with force and fraud, activists for human rights and democracy insist on “living in truth,” as Václav Havel put it. They rely on the truth, with its subversive might, to annihilate lies and leave tyrants speechless.
We have the truth and our commitment to it, but we also have cyberspace—something that previous generations of activists did not have. We have cyberspace, and with it the world as our audience. We can spread the truth and let it subvert tyrannies.