Last year, the Islamic Consultative Assembly announced the amendment of the Anti-Drug Law in order to create a glimmer of hope in this area. In this plan, the representatives of the Assembly demanded the elimination of the death penalty for drug-related crimes, except in cases of armed trafficking or organized groups. According to the resolution […]...

Seyed Mohammad Seifzadeh is a human rights lawyer. He is one of the founders of the Human Rights Defenders Association and spent several years in prison after the events of the 2009 presidential election. Seifzadeh has been actively working in various legal and human rights fields for years and has represented many political, security, and […]...

Simin Rouzgar The rights of prisoners and their families are one of the most important topics in human rights. One of the prerequisites for enforcing these rights is the proper identification and understanding of prisoners accused of various crimes and awareness of their conditions. In addition, achieving such understanding plays a significant role in research […]...

Simin Rouzgar The Glasgow school believes that news does not reflect the world, but rather shapes it. This definition means that the way an event is reported is more influenced by the political and social world surrounding it. The findings of research from this school not only question the impartiality of dominant media, but also […]...

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 Simin Rouzgar Dr. Ali Diniterkamani, a graduate of the Economic Development program at the University of Tehran, is currently an assistant professor at the Institute of Commercial Studies and Research. Over the past two decades, in addition to ten books and one hundred articles authored or translated by Dr. Diniterkamani have been published. […]...

  . Conversation with Ali Kalai Giti Pourfazl, a first-degree lawyer and member of the Bar Association, received her lawyer’s license in the last year before the revolution, in February 1979. After the victory of the revolution, due to her criticisms of the new legal structure established in the new system, her license was revoked […]...

  Mustafa Rahmani Sara Shourd, an American journalist, in 2009 while hiking in Iraq with two other American citizens named Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal, accidentally entered Iranian territory. This incident led to their arrest by Iranian security forces. These three American citizens spent 410 days in solitary confinement in Evin prison. Ms. Shourd, after […]...

  Conversation with Ali Kalaii Mehrdad Darvishpour, born in September 1339 in Tehran, has completed his PhD in Sociology at Stockholm University in Sweden and is currently a university professor and deputy professor at Mälardalen University. Mr. Darvishpour, who has been working on developing political theories since the age of 20, has published numerous articles […]...

Conversation with Simin Rouzgar. Hassan Yousefi Eshkevari, a writer, researcher, and religious scholar, is the first representative of the first term of the Islamic Consultative Assembly in Iran. His speech at the Berlin Conference caused a lot of controversy; after the conference, Mr. Eshkevari was arrested and initially sentenced to death by the Tehran clergy […]...