PARIS ¨C When the first pieces of information circumvented a near-total blackout during Iran¡¯s protests last month, rights defender Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam was already ready to say the scale of the crackdown was ¡°unbelievable.¡±
¡°We have never experienced something like this,¡± said the director of the Norway-based nongovernmental organization Iran Human Rights (IHR), which has been tracking rights violations in the Islamic republic for some two decades.
As a fragmented picture of the anti-government protests that peaked in early January emerged, IHR and other NGOs set out to verify the reports of thousands of deaths ¡ª painstaking work they are still undertaking weeks later.
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