Case history
In April 2013, The Siamak Pourzand Foundation was launched in the memory of Pourzand, dedicated to promoting freedom of expression for artists, writers, journalists and creative minds in contexts where the censorship apparatus is at work. On August 28, 2019, Maryland-based human rights law firm Herichi & Associates announced their representation of Pourzand’s wife and daughter in their separate claims against Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, Foreign Minister Javad Zarif and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Force “alleging the torture, hostage-taking, and extrajudicial killing” of Pourzand, “who was allegedly subject to torture, solitary confinement, forced confession, and lack of medical care that led to his death in 2011.”