Hamidreza Kafash, the deputy of educational and cultural affairs at the Ministry of Education, seems to have distanced himself from the official policy of concealing and denying the sexual harassment of students by senior managers of this ministry. In an interview with ISNA (July 10, 2014), Kafash, with some ifs and buts, announced the design […]...

A country where contraception methods are illegal is a country that is an enemy of women. The Iranian parliament has passed a law that considers abortion, sterilization, and any permanent contraception methods such as vasectomy as a crime. This fundamental move is designed to combat the significant population growth in the country, with long-term prisons […]...

The book “Honour Killing: The Intersection of Patriarchy, Gender, and Religion” is a case study and in-depth research by Ms. Melissa Pichard in collaboration with Professor Jacobo Schifter, published in December 2011. Honor killing is the act of killing a member of a family or community by other members, with the belief that the individual […]...

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In the law, neither political crime nor security crime is defined, but the term “security prisoners” has been used repeatedly, although they have a situation similar to political prisoners. This section of the short peace talks is with Nasrin Sotoudeh, a lawyer, prosecutor and social activist. She received the Human Rights Award from the International […]...

Jamshid Barzegar is a journalist and analyst of Iranian issues at BBC. He is someone who has a fundamental and logical approach and looks at journalism and news with a completely professional eye. We sat down with him to talk about Iranian journalism and asked for his opinions on the state of Persian-language media inside […]...

Political crime, like all other social-legal phenomena, has existed throughout the history of human civilization; “a reality that exists”; this discourse is the clash of human rights with tangible issues. A discourse based on fundamental values outside of legal rules that governmental systems must include in their constitutional and always changeable rules and laws in […]...

The pages of the history of various countries have shown that governments have used multiple mechanisms and diverse strategies to ensure their maximum interests and survival by exerting maximum power within their political borders. A quick review of history from the 18th century onwards reveals that, as Michel Foucault (1) demonstrated in 1968, one of […]...

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One of the topics that is always discussed in the political discourse in Iran is the topic of “political crimes” and related discussions. The question of what constitutes a political crime and why it has gained such importance in the political culture of the 20th century is a lengthy and detailed discussion, but in this […]...