Historical Evolution and Contemporary Challenges of Qisas in Law/ Mostafa Ahmadian

The essence of qisas (retributive justice) has long been based on a natural law: “You kill, you are killed; an eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth.” This well-known principle existed long before the emergence of Abrahamic religions. Historical stone carvings—including the Code of Hammurabi, which dates back to 1800 BCE and […]...

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There is no benefit in retribution except for the healing of the survivors, Mustafa Ahmadian.

In recent years, various campaigns opposing the death penalty have been formed, each considering execution and qisas as the most prominent and dangerous threats to society, whose harmful effects do not release our reality and collective life during this era of history. Nevertheless, our criminal justice policy, in response to these collective movements, has generally […]...

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Strikes and Organizing; The Lost Fortresses of Workers / Mustafa Ahmadian

Nearly a century has passed since the fourteen-day nationwide strike of printing workers and the prolonged strike of oil industry workers in Abadan between 1300 and 1404 (1921-1925). These were the first genuine and official strikes in the labor movement in Iran. Subsequently, between 1304 and 1320 (1925-1941), widespread strikes occurred, which faced the harshest […]...

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Human rights in the light of the philosophical concept of justice/ Mostafa Ahmadian

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Suicide and its legal elements/ Mostafa Ahmadian

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Structural critique of bar associations and the monitoring plan for lawyers/Mostafa Ahmadian

Understanding the current situation of the position of lawyers in the court of justice or the associations of lawyers in the vast machinery of the country’s judicial system can be achieved through studying its history and examining the past. From the time of the approval of the Law on the Quality of Obtaining a Lawyer’s […]...

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“Women’s rights and freedoms in the light of freedom of expression / Mostafa Ahmadian”

Human rights are a category of inherent, fundamental, inalienable, and universal rights that are accepted as a common ideal by all human societies in all times and places, and belong to all individuals regardless of their race, ethnicity, gender, religion, belief, or creed. It goes without saying that in this regard, the inherent, universal, inalienable, […]...

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Some points on the issue of execution and the proposal for a campaign / Mostafa Ahmadian

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Execution of drug offenses from reform to implementation/ Mostafa Ahmadian

“منظوری از بالا” “A view from above” Mustafa Ahmadian The execution cycle for drug convicts in the past years was carried out in a chaotic manner. The result was the ineffectiveness and failure of criminal policies towards this phenomenon. The inefficiency of execution in the face of the widespread use of drugs in society and […]...

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