A Jurisprudential Review of the Execution Punishment for Drug Offenders/ Hassan Farshchian

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. […]...

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“Cartoon Moon – A work by Ghazal Ghost”

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Missing for decades, the secret still remains a mystery / Ali Kalaii

This is a picture of a flower. Ali Kalai They came and took me in front of the house. His friends saw that he was arrested on the street. He has been missing since yesterday when he left home. In the past four decades, these words have been heard from many families. Families who are […]...

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Who pays for the executions in Iran?/ Hamid Yazdanpanah

This is a picture of a beautiful flower. Hamid Yazdanpanah “The death penalty has no place in the 21st century.” These words are part of the speech of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, which was delivered last year. Many agree with this theory. In fact, more than 140 countries around the world have abolished the death […]...

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About the paradox of executing successful murderers; in conversation with Mohammad Mostafaei/ Farnaz Kamali.

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 […]...

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Hope and despair in Qazal Hasar Prison in Karaj; in conversation with an executed prisoner/ Simin Rouzgar.

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 […]...

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Narges Mohammadi: Drug traffickers are victims of poverty / Ali Kalaii

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 […]...

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Mahmoud Amiri Moghadam: They admitted that execution is not the right way to fight against drugs / Forough Kamali

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 […]...

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Execution of Drug Smugglers, an Act Against Sharia and Jurisprudence / Hassan Yousefi Ashkoori

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 […]...

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Execution, to be or not to be, that is the question! / Amir Salar Davoudi

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 […]...

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Accompanying the victim child instead of broadcasting their images / Hamed Farmand

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 […]...

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The possibility of abolishing the death penalty for retribution in Islamic penal law / Mohammad Mohabi

“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 […]...

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