Gissou Nia
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Gissou Nia is Executive Director of the Iran Human Rights Documentation Center. Prior to her tenure at the Center, Ms. Nia worked on war crimes and crimes against humanity trials at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, The Netherlands.

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Lessons From 1979 Iran for Libya -- Seek Justice, Not Vengeance

6 Comments | Posted November 30, 2011 | 15:35:03 (EST)

The news that both Muammar Gaddafi's son Saif al-Islam and Abdullah al-Senussi, Libya's former intelligence chief, were captured alive last week was both a surprise and a relief. There would be no shaky cell phone video of the former Libyan regime's strongmen dragged through the streets and summarily...

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Bin Laden's Death: Do I Fit Into the Celebration?

Posted May 10, 2011 | 19:12:40 (EST)

Bin Laden is dead.

These words ran on a news feed circling around a Times Square building as I made my way back to my flat on the upper west side of Manhattan. A man next to me mouthed the words out then spontaneously grabbed me and yelled. "We...

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Bin Laden's Death: Do I Fit Into the Celebration?

Posted May 9, 2011 | 14:28:16 (EST)

Bin Laden is dead.

These words ran on a news feed circling around a Times Square building as I made my way back to my flat on the upper west side of Manhattan. A man next to me mouthed the words out then spontaneously grabbed me and yelled. "We...

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