O People Sitting on the Shore… This Call Is from Greater Tehran Prison/ Nafiseh Laleh

The young Iran of yesterday is old today, and has lost its way. An Iran in which the concept of life has been reduced to “bare life,” and the “state of exception” belongs not merely to yesterday and today, but is the product of long years of erasing the boundary between life and death. A […]...

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Individual and Family Care Measures in the Face of No News About Prisoners/ Mahtab Alinejad

Nights grow dark earlier than ever; not because of blackout, but because of the weight of something no one can quite name. When the siren sounds, the mother involuntarily places her hand on her chest, the very place where she last heard her son’s voice, over a crackling phone line that was cut off too […]...

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The Role of Civil Society in the Process of Democratization/ Kazem Alamdari

The transition from authoritarianism to democracy is one of the most complex political processes in the contemporary world. Historical experience shows that the سقوط of authoritarian regimes does not necessarily lead to the establishment of a stable democracy. In many cases, the collapse of an authoritarian order has resulted in political instability, internal violence, or […]...

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Oh Woe to the Captive Who Has Been Forgotten…/ Katayoun Moghaddam

Over the past three months, following the severe suppression of domestic protests in Iran and then with the outbreak of war in the region, the Islamic Republic government has drastically restricted—and at times effectively cut off—residents’ access to the internet. This disruption is not merely a break in the flow of information; it means living […]...

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Cell by Cell of Injustice; War and the Collapse of Prisoners’ Rights/ Behzad Ahmadinia

Prisons and prisoners in Iran have perhaps never had laws or rights; there have been years when the situation was relatively better and the most basic rules were observed, and there have been dark years when Lajevardi and Dr. Ahmadi ruled over the lives and deaths of prisoners and their basic rights. The US and […]...

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Joining the silence of the Iranian women’s national football team/Moloud Soleimani

The news begins with the act of silence by members of the Iranian women’s national football team in a match against South Korea at the Asian Cup in Australia. At the beginning of the match, the national anthem of the Islamic Republic is played. The camera moves over the faces of the female footballers; over […]...

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Gender Justice in the World: Fragile Achievements and Challenges Ahead / Elaheh Amani

The seventieth session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (CSW70) was held from March 9 to March 19, 2026, at the United Nations Headquarters in New York. The theme of this session was “Ensuring and strengthening access to justice for all women and girls,” and it encompassed axes such as “promoting […]...

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In memory of the children who died at Minab School; a work by Motaharah Jafari

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A look at the Saedinia case and the principle of the personal nature of judicial matters in a conversation with Fereydoun Jafari/Ali Kalai

The January 1404 protests were the bloodiest protests in Iran’s contemporary history, resulting in the deaths of thousands of people and leaving profound human, social, and legal consequences. In addition to its catastrophic human dimensions, this event also presented the country’s legal and judicial order with unprecedented challenges; challenges in which the boundary between “maintaining […]...

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Jahangir Shahvari: The Saedinia case is intended to intimidate and warn society / Pedram Tahseni

The protests of January 1404, which resulted in the deaths of thousands of protesters and the widespread use of violence by security agencies, have been described by many as the bloodiest protests in the contemporary history of Iran and the world. The consequences of these protests were not limited to the streets and mass arrests, […]...

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Why was January 1404 bloody?/ Majid Shia Ali

Throughout the contemporary history of the world, various governments have been responsible for the killing of a large portion of their citizens, from the crimes of the Khmer Rouge to the history of genocide in Bosnia, from the Nazi gas chambers to the famines resulting from the policies of the Stalin and Mao governments. Even […]...

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Testaments of an Uprising/Naimeh Doostdar

January 1404 was a time for a number of protesters to say their “last words”; a sentence recorded in a few lines on Instagram stories, or in a few-second video, sometimes in a brief call to family, and sometimes in a will that the survivors tried to carry out without fail. These messages, republished in […]...

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