The Helmsman’s New Policy: From Elimination in the Digital Sphere to Engineering Silence/ Morteza Hamounian

Usually, after a calamity, clearing the rubble begins. For example, when a war occurs, after it ends, everyone seeks to clear away the rubble of war and tries, through a collective effort, to heal one another’s wounds. But in the Islamic Republic of Iran, it seems that everything is reversed. Once the war subsides, only […]...

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Pervasive Social Surveillance and Control in the Digital Age/ Fereshteh Goli

In recent years, the Islamic Republic has taken major steps in using new technologies for social surveillance and control. This trend, rooted in global developments and what the government regards as domestic needs, has been pursued at different speeds during different periods, but what has turned it into a prominent issue is the increasing acceleration […]...

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What Does Crisis Reveal About Human Beings? / Samireh Hanaei

War does not only destroy cities. Crisis does not only unravel political or economic order. Perhaps the deepest effect of crisis lies where it is less visible: the moment when a person realizes that they can no longer preserve everything that is valuable to them at the same time. In ordinary life, many moral choices […]...

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Sexual Violence and Abuse of Children in Iran: A Challenge Beyond Silence and Denial / Elahe Amani

“We owe our children, the most vulnerable citizens in any society, a life free from violence and fear.” — Nelson Mandela A review of the performance of the Society for the Protection of the Rights of the Child in 1404 and the fact that child sexual abuse ranks at the top of the issues in […]...

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A look at the concept of Volunteer Tourism/Pardis Parsa

While traditional models of mass tourism are largely based on consumerism, a particular approach to volunteer tourism has expanded in recent decades, founded on non-monetary exchange. Under this structured approach, rather than acting as a passive consumer and paying for accommodation and food, the tourist contributes part of their time, expertise, and physical or intellectual […]...

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Prisoners’ rights in international law; from global standards to the reality of Iranian prisons/Sina Yousefi

The extent to which a legal system adheres to the rule of law cannot be measured solely through criminal laws or court decisions; one of the most accurate measures of its assessment is the way in which individuals who are deprived of their liberty for any reason are treated. Contrary to popular belief, prison is […]...

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Vakilabad, the Forgotten Prison/ Majid Shia’ali

Last July, events occurred in Vakilabad Prison in Mashhad that have had little precedent in the history of this prison. The detainees of the protests of last January are still present in this prison in large numbers. Although the number of detainees has decreased from more than a thousand to about four hundred during this […]...

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Solitary cell: A place to break a person/ Marziye Mohebbi

What is solitary confinement, what are its conditions, is it essentially torture or punishment, and how does it debilitate a prisoner and cause his psyche to go into turmoil? How does loneliness and disconnection from the world destroy humanity, and why does the Islamic Republic, in its unparalleled and advanced set of physical and mental […]...

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Fair trial from arrest to trial/ Lohrasb Kouhestani

The interval between the moment of arrest and the day of trial is the most sensitive, critical, and at the same time the most vulnerable part of the criminal justice process. It is during this period that the individual is directly confronted with the powerful and organized machine of state prosecution; while his guilt has […]...

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Law and Violence Behind Prison Walls/ Morteza Hamounian

It is no longer strange for officers to shoot at people in the streets and in the face of public protests. Of course, it was strange at one time; an air shot in the ceiling would scare everyone, wondering why the security officers had started shooting. But today, and especially after what happened in 2009, […]...

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