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 […]...

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 […]...

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 […]...

Last year, it was these very days that the news of Sepideh Farahan’s suicide, a former political prisoner, made headlines. A suspicious and shocking death that, according to her friends, was a voluntary suicide. Sepideh had said in her interviews that during her time in Evin Prison, the detention center of the Ministry of Intelligence, […]...

“It was around 5 in the morning. I had severe period pain and since they had detained me in front of my house, I didn’t have any money to buy sanitary pads. I called out “Sir” in a low voice to open the door. He opened the door and I told him I didn’t have […]...

This is a picture of a beautiful flower. Reza Alijani When the friends of the “Peace Line” magazine (Mr. Ali Kalai) asked me to write an article about the “necessity of informing about human rights violations”, I thought about what I should say about this important issue that I haven’t written about before. So far, […]...

This is a caption “This is a caption” Reza Alijani Do you think why the security-judicial system in Iran has always been opposed to defining political crimes and even when it is written without any evidence or basis, they still strongly defend against it? The answer to my speculation is a problem: They are against […]...