Ladan and her sister Roya Boroumand, run the DC and Paris based Abdorrahman Boroumand Foundation for human rights, an organization which has recorded as much of the human rights violations committed against the Iranian people since 1979. On April 18, 1991, Ladan and Roya’s own father, Abdorrahman Boroumand was brutally stabbed to death in the lobby of his Paris apartment by agents of the Islamic Republic.