From Mahmoud Ansari to Qaisar; Media Heroism and the Return of the Logic of Revenge / Morteza Hamounian

In Yasuj, the capital of Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad province, a doctor is murdered. The accused of the murder says that this doctor (Masoud Davoudi) is to blame for his brother’s death and that he committed medical negligence. So he takes action and kills the doctor. The accused of the murder is sentenced to self-retribution by […]...

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The Child Left Between Rape and Revenge/Fereshteh Goli

Lost in the chaos of Iranian news, a story with catastrophic depth was the story of an old man raping a boy in Tabriz, which led to personal revenge by the boy’s family, who sent the old man to the hospital and into surgery; revenge whose instrument was a wooden sofa leg. In this note, […]...

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A brief look at honor killings: The law that authorizes murder / Abolfazl Alizadeh

“Honour killings”; in recent years, we have heard this phrase repeatedly and each time our souls and beings have been pained, and each time we have written whatever we could, but unfortunately, there has been a lack of attention and effective and noticeable action. In recent years, we have heard many times that Iranian girls […]...

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A Narrative of the Murder of Sonya Aria Poor (Dehqan) in a Conversation with Her Mother: I did not allow the paternal family to write on Sonya’s grave stone / Bahar Abbasi

Sonya Aryapour (Dehghan) was a victim of an honor killing in the city of Sardasht and was killed by her brother and cousin. She was buried in the Nalas neighborhood. Her 19-year-old brother, Saman Dehghan, and her 21-year-old cousin, Hedi Dehghan, were responsible for her murder. Sonya’s parents were separated and she had a failed […]...

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Enforcing hijab on children is one form of child abuse/ Soosan Mohammadkhani Ghiasvand

The translation is: “Persian language” Sousan Mohammadkhani Ghiasvand I didn’t have a good feeling about getting tangled up in a chador and mantoo. From the age of six or seven, a distance began to grow between me and my playmates. A few years later, I felt alienated from my own body. I was afraid of […]...

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