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”....

Hovsepian Mehr, born on January 6, 1945, was an Iranian-Armenian priest, bishop of the Assemblies of God churches in Iran, and a human rights activist in the field of religious freedom. He was particularly known for his efforts to overturn the death sentence and secure the release of Pastor Mehdi Dibaj, and ultimately, his name […]...

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Understanding the current situation of the position of lawyers in the court of justice or the associations of lawyers in the vast machinery of the country’s judicial system can be achieved through studying its history and examining the past. From the time of the approval of the Law on the Quality of Obtaining a Lawyer’s […]...

Rasoul Badaghi is a teacher and a member of the board of directors of the Iranian Teachers’ Association, with a 30-year history of teaching in schools across the country. In September 2009, after the popular protests against the results of the presidential election, he was arrested and sentenced to 6 years in prison and 5 […]...