
Abdorrahman Boroumand Center
Washington-based Iranian human rights documentation centre; tracks executions and political prisoners since 2001.
The Abdorrahman Boroumand Center's Omid database put Iran's 2026 execution toll at 916 on 13 August 2026, against Iran Human Rights Monitor's roughly 463 for the same year, a gap neither side has explained.
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Who is documenting Iran's execution record during the Hormuz conflict?
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The Abdorrahman Boroumand Center (ABC) is a Washington-based non-profit founded in 2001 by sisters Ladan and Roya Boroumand, in memory of their father Abdorrahman Boroumand, an Iranian lawyer and opposition leader assassinated in Paris in 1991. Its primary mission is the systematic documentation of executions, political prisoners and human rights violations in Iran, drawn from open-source research, survivor testimony and official Iranian judicial records.
The Center's Omid database holds individual records for thousands of people executed or imprisoned in Iran since the 1979 revolution, including the 1988 mass executions of political prisoners, an episode in which Ebrahim Raisi participated as a member of the Death Commission. ABC's documentation of that commission's composition and procedures is detailed at the individual-victim level.
Omid is used by lawyers pursuing international accountability cases and by UN Special Rapporteurs drafting country reports on Iran, giving the Center's individual-level archive a reach beyond journalism into legal and diplomatic use.
Its count leads three disputed tallies
The Abdorrahman Boroumand Center's Omid database puts Iran's full-2026 execution toll at 916, against Iran Human Rights Monitor's separate estimate of roughly 463 over the same window. Both organisations describe their own figures as documented minimums rather than complete totals, so the roughly twofold gap between them has no agreed explanation. Hengaw's narrower count of 67 for July alone, and a joint condemnation thirty-two states issued on 13 August citing at least 56 national-security cases, sit alongside these annual totals without reconciling them .
The Center's own source, iranrights.org, blocks automated fetching, so its Omid figures reach outside researchers relayed through its published reports rather than read directly at source. No single figure among the three monitors should be treated as authoritative.
Documentation reaches individual wartime cases
The 'moharebeh and Israel' charge filed against Najmeh Amini in Mashhad on 9 May 2026 is the type of capital prosecution the Abdorrahman Boroumand Center systematically records in its Omid database, which holds individual case files stretching back to the 1979 revolution. Hengaw's real-time reporting of the wartime crackdown and the Center's historical archive complement each other: one tracks events as they break, the other builds the individual record that outlasts them.
ESMA Zarei's execution at Ardabil Prison on 23 May, reported by Hengaw alone with no state confirmation or second source as of the following day, is the kind of single-source case that later needs the Center's longer-run documentation to corroborate or contextualise.