Iranian cinema has gone through a turbulent path from its birth until now: from Mirza Ibrahim Khan Akasbashi and Khan Baba Mo’tazeddi, who filmed the first movies in this country, to Ebrahim Golestan, who made the first silent film in Iranian cinema, to the present time where everything, including film screenings, has become digital and […]...

Abstaining from the use of violence can be defined as the most basic definition of non-violence. However, it must be acknowledged that violence exists in various forms. Different scientific approaches to non-violence acknowledge that there are different types of violence. The most prominent type of violence, which is seen openly in many societies, especially in […]...

Introduction: The performance of the United Nations General Assembly and Security Council in the fight against international terrorism and humanitarian assistance, resulting from developments in the concept of peace, is of great importance. The establishment of international judicial bodies, which began in the 20th century and reached its peak in the last decade, is crucial […]...

A wide range of victims of human rights violations fall into the category of “enforced disappearances”. From Argentine political prisoners who were thrown out of airplanes into the sea during the “Dirty War” of 1976-1983, to the victims of the massacre of political prisoners in Iran in the summer of 1988; the disappeared are individuals […]...

It was July 2016 when the United Nations Human Rights Commission recognized the blocking of citizens’ access to the internet as a violation of human rights, by passing a resolution. According to this resolution, any deliberate and intentional interference with free access to the internet by governments, especially preventing the free flow of information on […]...

“Based on human nature, humans are free. However, since humans live in a society and a set of laws governs human communities, this freedom defines a framework for corresponding measures. In this scope of freedom, there is no good or bad, but rather it explains and defines the way justice is obtained in proportion to […]...

Years ago, when I was working on a file with my dear friend and colleague, Sheyda Laleh, titled “Why and How I Became a Journalist,” I had a conversation with Ali Akbar Ghazi Zadeh, a prominent journalism professor. I had fallen in love with reporting and editing in his classes, and now I was sitting […]...

Introduction 1.: Psychological study of tyranny and authoritarianism is not a new phenomenon. Perhaps one of the most exciting aspects of social psychology is the study of the personality of tyrannical and authoritarian individuals. If we say that hundreds of important books have been written about the psychological personality of Hitler and Stalin, we are […]...

After eight years of Hassan Rouhani’s government, the time has come for the government’s record in the areas of citizen rights and human rights to be reviewed and scrutinized. It has been twenty-four years since the second of Khordad 76 and the beginning of the government that later became known as the Reformist government. Do […]...

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August 92 Mohammad Ghanbari, a follower of the Yarsan religion and a resident of Qareh Dash Takhtestan in Qazvin, set himself on fire in front of the Islamic Consultative Assembly in Tehran in protest against discrimination against the Yarsan people and the government’s neglect of their problems. He passed away in Motahhari Hospital in Tehran […]...

Sources. The historical data for this writing has been taken from two sources: 1- “The Anatomy of Contemporary Massacre in Iran, from Bab to Khavaran”; Mehrdad Emanat; Bibisi Farsi 2- An interview with Monireh Baradaran titled “The Destruction of Mass Graves is an International Crime”....