Freedom of thought and expression

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July 5, 2026

Freedom of thought and expression

Violation of privacy, under the guise of protecting public security/ Soghra Rahimi

According to reports published on social media in the past weeks, security forces have displayed another form of violence against women by violating their privacy at metro stations and continuing the enforcement of compulsory hijab. According to these reports, passengers are confronted with officers who, without their consent, confiscate and search their mobile phones under […]...

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Created By: Soghra Rahimi
August 22, 2024

Division and dichotomy of sanctions or cooperation; in conversation with Mostafa Mehrayin/ Amir Aghaei

The fourteenth presidential election, regardless of its outcome, had another characteristic that sparked many debates and controversies in society. The low participation of people in both stages of the election and the boycott of it by the majority of the society, has been defined as the beginning of a new era of political action by […]...

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Created By: Amir Aghayi
July 22, 2024

The story of a painful day in journalism in Iran / Hormoz Sharifian

In Iran, the day of the journalist is marked by the name “Mahmoud Saremi”. On August 8, 1998, one of the journalists of the IRNA news agency, along with several employees of the Islamic Republic consulate, was killed by Taliban forces in the city of Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan. Since then, August 8 has been designated as […]...

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Created By: Hormoz Sharifian
July 22, 2024

The story of the sorrowful repentance and redemption in the 1960s/ Reza Alijani

According to the jurisprudential and legal laws governing the courts of the Islamic Republic, repentance of criminals can be effective in the severity of the sentence issued against them. Articles 114 to 119 of the Islamic Penal Code pertain to repentance and its methods of verification. It should be noted that most of these substances […]...

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Created By: Reza Alijani
July 22, 2024

Reconstructing the “Court of Public Opinion” against Ideological Rehab and Repentance / Amin Ghazaie

The present article is dedicated to the approach of human rights activists towards the process of forced confession and retribution in the prisons of despotic rulers. How the captive is forced to express repentance and remorse to the point where he even turns his back on his ideals and values ​​and accepts the values […]...

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Created By: Amin Ghazaie
July 22, 2024

Psychology of tyranny

  A look at the book.“ Blue angel.“ The works of Heinrich Mann. Perhaps most of us are familiar with Heinrich Mann’s creations through the famous film “The Blue Angel”. In fact, this film, with some changes based on the novel by the master, Heinrich Mann, was turned into a movie and after the amazing […]...

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Created By: Admin
June 7, 2024

The demands of civil society behind Rouhani’s cabinet.

Hassan Rouhani, the seventh President of the Islamic Republic of Iran, on August 4, 2013, at his inauguration ceremony, presented the names of 18 proposed ministers to Ali Larijani, the Speaker of Parliament. After the announcement of the proposed ministers, various analyses were made by political groups and the media. Some considered this cabinet to […]...

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Created By: Admin
June 7, 2024

Ahmad Shahid: I have asked Mr. Rouhani to invite me to Iran.

Ahmad Shahid, former Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Maldives, was selected on June 11, 2011 (21 Khordad 1390) by the United Nations Human Rights Council as the fourth Special Rapporteur on Iran. Andres Aguilar was the first special rapporteur of the United Nations Human Rights Council to investigate human rights violations in Iran. He […]...

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Created By: Simin Rouzgard
June 7, 2024

Reza Shah, “You and I” and our Reza Shah!

You definitely know the owner of this picture; she is Margaret Thatcher. Thatcher is known among capitalists as the Iron Lady, but the workers of England and Irish freedom fighters have given her the nickname Attila and the Vampire Lady. Perhaps it is because of this dual image that when Peter Thompson, a professor at […]...

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Created By: Admin
June 7, 2024

Investigating potential changes in civil society with regard to the change of government in Iran.

From the earliest stages of forming human societies, two distinct classes have emerged, which in the simplest division are divided into two groups: “rulers” and “subjects”. In fact, it is the behavior, division of duties, and relationships of these two groups that introduces the concept of a political society. If we define the political society […]...

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Created By: Meisam Asadi
June 7, 2024

Who controls the internet network?

Facebook regularly abuses the privacy of its users. Google no longer supports its popular RSS feeds. Apple has banned all iPhone apps that are political or sexual in nature. Microsoft may collaborate with some governments to spy on Skype calls, but we do not know which governments. Recently, both Twitter and LinkedIn have experienced security […]...

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Created By: Admin
June 7, 2024

Beyond the appearance of “Fata Police”

In the Islamic system ruling over Iran, more emphasis is placed on not corrupting the people rather than understanding them. This characteristic is derived from the clergy who have always considered themselves as “knowledgeable” and others as “ignorant” throughout history. The clergy of present-day Iran have no new words for those who understand and for […]...

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Created By: Admin
June 7, 2024