Execution of Drug Smugglers, an Act Against Sharia and Jurisprudence / Hassan Yousefi Ashkoori

Introduction – General Overview We know that in Islamic punishments and criminal laws, punishments are divided into two categories: hadd and ta’zir. Hadd punishments are laws that are clearly stated in the Quran and authentic prophetic traditions, and are known as “textual punishments”. Ta’zir punishments are punishments that are not explicitly mentioned in the Sharia […]...

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Execution, to be or not to be, that is the question! / Amir Salar Davoudi

The Iranian government has always been questioned in international forums due to the high number of executions carried out within the country. The response from Iranian officials has always been that religious laws prevent the reconsideration of the death penalty in criminal laws. However, this response has never been convincing for questioners and critics, as […]...

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Accompanying the victim child instead of broadcasting their images / Hamed Farmand

The image of a child looking down at the camera, with a crooked face and a bitter smile, accompanied by a text that tells the story of the child’s innocence and the pity of their circumstances, has become an inseparable part of civil and political activities that protest against the situation of a prisoner or […]...

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The possibility of abolishing the death penalty for retribution in Islamic penal law / Mohammad Mohabi

“From ancient times, in various schools of criminal law, the discussion of methods of punishment has been controversial. How should we punish a criminal who disrupts social order and stability? And what should be the result of this punishment?” The late Dr. Naser Katouzian, the undisputed master of Iranian law, in the later years of […]...

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Execution; State Killing and the Flawed Cycle of Violence/ Witness Alavi

The death penalty, which involves taking away a person’s life, is an irreversible punishment. This irreversibility of the punishment, in situations where there is always a possibility of a mistake in judgment, turns it into the worst form of punishment. However, this is not the whole story. Neither the arguments of opponents of this execution […]...

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Human rights, drugs, execution/ Alireza Sarbazi

If you get arrested, the judicial system of no country will easily overlook your mistake. Even if you are detained as a citizen of another country, you will not easily be deported to your home country. The threat of long-term imprisonment and even harsher punishments will always loom over you; we are talking about smuggling […]...

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Negotiations for setting minimum wages and reasons for workers’ failure / Ali Ajami

In the last days of the past year, after negotiations between mostly government-affiliated labor unions and representatives of employers with the presence of government representatives, the minimum wage for the year 1394 was determined to be 712,000 tomans, which had a 17% increase compared to the minimum wage in the previous year. The basis for […]...

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Unfulfilled promises of officials and treatment of Ali Chraghi/Samuel Bakhtiari’s son.

Many of us have witnessed numerous instances of harsh treatment by municipal officials towards street vendors and peddlers in city areas. We have heard many times from people saying things like “I, who did not close the way”, “If I had a job, I wouldn’t do this”, “I am unemployed, is it okay to steal?”, […]...

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یTeachers; From Silence to Protest/ Ali Pour Soleymani

As we approach Teacher’s Week 2015, we are slowly entering the second year of the government of prudence and hope. President Rouhani, at the beginning of his term, considering the knowledge he had of the cultural community, teachers, and their demands, as well as the cultural mindset of educators towards the academic and managerial qualifications […]...

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Unbalanced Development in Political Systems: Alireza Sarbazi

According to Samuel Huntington, the creator and discoverer of the theory of clash of civilizations, revolution is a phenomenon specific to societies on the path of economic modernization, which are unevenly interacting with the development of underdeveloped political institutions. In other words, the expectation of revolution only exists in societies that, despite experiencing economic and […]...

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