Government deadlock in the fight against mandatory hijab/ Beloved Tavakoli

It has been close to forty-five years that Iranian women, generation after generation, have passed on the torch of the fight against mandatory hijab in the Islamic Republic. The young girls of 1357 (1978) who came to the streets in protests against wearing headscarves, are now fighting alongside their granddaughters for the right to choose […]...

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The Role of the Government in the Sequence of Honor Killings in Iran / Elaheh Amani

Is “honor killing” on the rise in the world and in Iran? With a brief review, we find that in Iran and other Western Asian countries (Middle East) and South Asian countries, news of honor killings is also the top headline on websites and newspapers. Human rights groups say that every year, around a thousand […]...

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Retribution and deterrence: The ineffective combination of the death penalty and intentional murder / Mahnaz Norouzian

These days, news about executions and inhumane punishments, which are still being carried out despite the existence of many opponents, have occupied the minds of human rights activists and supporters of abolishing punishments that violate human dignity. Despite research showing the ineffectiveness of capital punishment, it is still being implemented. In most countries around the […]...

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قتExecution; Deterrence or Intimidation? / Ehsan Haghighat

Capital Punishment – including execution, which is the most common type – has been one of the most important tools for social control and criminal reactions in various legal systems from ancient times until now. It still exists and is implemented in some criminal systems around the world. Sufficient deterrence, proportionality of punishment, preservation of […]...

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Taqi Azad Ermaki: Intentional violence among teenagers can turn into murder / Ali Kalai

“We will face mass killings in the not-so-distant future; where young people will gather and engage in killing each other.” This warning comes from Taqi Azad Armaki, a sociologist and professor at the University of Tehran’s Faculty of Social Sciences. It is a warning about the violence in the younger generation, which is the motivation […]...

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Investigating the reproduction of violence in virtual space in conversation with Gholamreza Alizadeh, sociologist/ Morteza Hamounian

Representation of violence in Iranian artworks and films, as well as religious rituals such as self-flagellation, can contribute to an increase in the inclination and action towards violence against oneself, which manifests in the form of self-harm. The phenomenon of self-harm is considered a social issue in the world, and is particularly prevalent among young […]...

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Mohammad Moghimi: The amendment bill on the use of weapons is against all human values / Azad Mohammadi

Following the efforts of the eleventh parliament to review and approve the amendment bill on the use of weapons, passed in 1994, supporters and proponents of this bill claim that the main goal of drafting this new amendment is to address the inadequacy of the current law (the law on the use of weapons by […]...

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Is the bill “Amendment of the Arms Deployment Law” a reproduction of the exceptional situation? / Mehrnoush Noye Doust

God, Sultan Mahmud is the same God as today. Last year, the leader of the Islamic Republic agreed to change the name of “NAJA” to “FARAJA” and in May of this year, “The Law Enforcement Force of the Islamic Republic” was promoted to “The Command of the Law Enforcement of the Islamic Republic”. Following this […]...

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A Look at the Wave of Executions in Recent Months/ Milad Pour Eisi

“Violence and execution, the response of anger to inequality.” According to the statistics from the Center for Human Rights Activists in Iran, in the month of Khordad of this year, ninety-seven prisoners have been executed across the country. Based on this report, only less than forty percent of these executions, which is at least thirty […]...

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Investigating the causes of conflicts and social tensions in a conversation with Mostafa Eghlima/Roshanak Mehrayin.

“Peak instead of law” Two months ago, the Forensic Medicine Organization announced that last year, six hundred thousand people across the country visited the organization’s centers due to street conflicts. Although, according to this government agency, the number of visits due to street fights and conflicts did not increase compared to 1399. However, this number […]...

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Conversation with women who have reached the pinnacle of success from the days of sleeping in cardboard boxes / Nazanin Zekayi

On the 23rd of Bahman month in the year 1400, the steps of two young heroines, one 18 years old and the other 38 years old, reached the first and third place of the national Karate competition in the Kyokushin IFK style in Europe. These girls, who are now leaving for Spain to taste the […]...

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“Violence is inhumane; a conversation with Hussein Bayouk, an Afghan social activist / Conversation by Mari Mohammadi”

Hossein Biouk is a journalist and social activist from Afghanistan, currently living in Kabul. He has organized book festivals and introduced the poetry collection “Let’s Forget the Gun” by Mahmoud Jafari, translated Afghan novels into Arabic, and collaborated with Mohammad Hossein Mohammadi, a prominent Afghan writer and storyteller, in compiling two story collections. He is […]...

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