Hassan Farshchian According to the fact that in the legal system of the Islamic Republic of Iran, jurisprudence is considered one of the main sources of legislation, jurists and experts who agree with the death penalty for drug offenders have tried to justify the execution of these criminals based on one of the legitimate punishments. […]...

This is a caption. Saeed Madani A rapper has recently released a song called “National Garden” in which he attempts to depict the social situation and crises in Iranian society. In this music video, the voices of countless victims of social damages cry out to the authorities: “Do you hear our voices?” Now I, alongside […]...

This is a caption. Mohammad Mohabbai “Transformation of the philosophy of punishment from”“ Vindictiveness.“ To.“ Pragmatism.“ “Rights, a historical legacy of morality. I will never forget this famous statement by Dr. Nasser Katouzian, the father of Iranian law. In other words, law and justice are meant to preserve and elevate the morality of society, not […]...

Professor Payam Akhavan, an Iranian-Canadian lawyer, human rights activist, and professor at McGill University in Montreal. Mr. Akhavan, who has been actively pursuing cases of human rights violations around the world for two decades, including as a former prosecutor for the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda, has made significant efforts to […]...

Conversation with Faranaz Kamali On the eve of the Persian New Year, angry men in Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, killed a woman named Farokhondeh with their fists, sticks, and stones, under the assumption that she had burned a copy of the Quran. They then set her body on fire. The immediate release of photos […]...

Hope and despair, together, are intertwined in Karaj’s Qezel Hessar prison – one of the largest prisons in the Middle East – despite thousands of prisoners under death sentences. It has been a few months since prisoners have heard whispers that the current laws regarding issuing death sentences for drug-related crimes may change; on one […]...

Prior to 1390 (2011), possession, buying, and selling of certain drugs such as hashish and industrial drugs did not carry the death penalty. However, the Expediency Discernment Council declared in a resolution that anyone carrying, buying, selling, or possessing more than 30 grams of these types of drugs would face the death penalty. This resolution […]...

Dr. Mahmoud Amiri Moghadam, born in 1350 in Kerman, is a professor at the School of Medicine in Oslo, Norway. His doctoral thesis in the field of neurology is recognized as the best research in the field of medicine, and for this reason, he has received an award from the King of Norway. Dr. Amiri […]...

Introduction – General Overview We know that in Islamic punishments and criminal laws, punishments are divided into two categories: hadd and ta’zir. Hadd punishments are laws that are clearly stated in the Quran and authentic prophetic traditions, and are known as “textual punishments”. Ta’zir punishments are punishments that are not explicitly mentioned in the Sharia […]...

The Iranian government has always been questioned in international forums due to the high number of executions carried out within the country. The response from Iranian officials has always been that religious laws prevent the reconsideration of the death penalty in criminal laws. However, this response has never been convincing for questioners and critics, as […]...

The image of a child looking down at the camera, with a crooked face and a bitter smile, accompanied by a text that tells the story of the child’s innocence and the pity of their circumstances, has become an inseparable part of civil and political activities that protest against the situation of a prisoner or […]...

“From ancient times, in various schools of criminal law, the discussion of methods of punishment has been controversial. How should we punish a criminal who disrupts social order and stability? And what should be the result of this punishment?” The late Dr. Naser Katouzian, the undisputed master of Iranian law, in the later years of […]...