Prisoners Rights

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October 6, 2025

Prisoners Rights

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

Can repentance turn into a torturer?/ Monireh Baradaran

The question is: Can repentance turn into a torturer? But perhaps it is more appropriate to change the question to the complicity of “repentance” with the “torturer”: Can repentance become an accomplice to the torturer? The “real torturer” gains absolute obedience from the victim by turning them into their prey, but they are never willing […]...

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Created By: Monireh Baradaran
July 22, 2024

Atonement or Nurturing the Executioner?/ Behram Rahmani

It is not easy to answer questions such as “Can repentance turn into a torturer?” because repentance, before anything else, is a result of torture and psychological and emotional pressures on the body and soul of the captive. Human resistance to threats, torture, and punishment also varies; some people are resistant to the violence of […]...

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Created By: Bahram Rahmani
July 22, 2024

A look at the violation of prisoners’ rights with the implementation of the repentance verification procedure / Qasem Baadi

Repentance is a religious term in various religions, including Islam, which aims to “socially rehabilitate” the criminal and prevent society from “corrupting” the individual. This religious directive is based on the reconstruction of the “sinful” personality through expressing hidden remorse and regret, but in ideological systems, it is often used not for the purpose of […]...

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Created By: Qasem Bodi
July 22, 2024

“Repentance” or “social rehabilitation”? / Ahmad Alavi

In early July of this year, the head of the judiciary of the Islamic Republic of Iran issued a memorandum on repentance in 9 articles. This memorandum was developed in accordance with the implementation of articles 114 to 119 of the Islamic Penal Code, passed in 2013, and paragraph “c” of article 24 of the […]...

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Created By: Ahmad Alavi
July 22, 2024

Individual, Cultural, and Social Effects of Repentance / Kazem Alamdari

About 300 years ago, Francois Voltaire, one of the famous philosophers of the Enlightenment era, believed: “There must be a distinction between sin and crime.” Just looking at articles 114 to 119 of the Islamic Penal Code, which was passed in 2013, and the guidelines for repentance that were recently announced by the head of […]...

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Created By: Kazem Alamdari
July 22, 2024

Introducing the topic of repentance in jurisprudence; yes or no?/ Alireza Goodarzi

The code of conduct defines repentance as a psychological state of attention and return to God after committing a crime, the consequence of which is remorse, correction, and abandonment of behavior, as well as attempting to make amends for the damage caused. These definitions do not have a specific legal burden. Repentance can be about […]...

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Created By: Alireza Goodarzi
July 22, 2024

قت Rule of law or rule of faith?/ Ehsan Haqiqat

The law is one of the most important foundations for the formation and achievement of a civil society. Relying on the law and safeguarding its boundaries as a manifestation of the will of the people, is the guarantor of the survival and stability of such societies. The combination of these characteristics – in addition to […]...

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Created By: Ehsan Haghi
July 22, 2024

Ideological trends of “The Repentance Verification Guidelines” / Sina Yousefi

Ideological governments always try to control all aspects of governance under their own ideological and belief principles in order to survive. The criminal system and judicial system are not exempt from this matter. In fact, it can be said that the ideology of governments not only determines criminal laws and their enforcement, but also has […]...

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Created By: Sina Yousefi
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

“The salvation in truth” / Purifying type

Recently, Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejei, the head of the judicial power of the Islamic Republic, announced the implementation of guidelines titled “Qualification of Repentance” to judicial authorities in order to prevent repeated crimes and reform and educate criminals. According to this manual, “repentance is a psychological state that involves attention and return of a person to […]...

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Created By: Motahreh Goonei
July 22, 2024

General Amnesty in Bahman 1401 and Repentance in Vakilabad/ Majid Shia’ali

Each of us has heard many stories of repentance in detention centers and political prisons in the 1990s. Bitter stories that in many cases put a person between death and repentance. As we have heard a lot about the executions of 1967, the issue of “being executed” or “surviving” became a criterion for those who […]...

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Created By: Majid Shia’ali
July 22, 2024