Human Dingnity and Criminal Sentencing in Iran
“This thought we have now is an European or an Eastern thought. We want to throw it off and have the thought of a human being [Insaan]; Our own thought, an Iranian one, an Islamic one!”, or "“All...
View ArticleNew Developments in Sharia Application in Nigeria
Nigeria is the largest multi-ethnic country in Africa that has been bitterly fallen in different international, social and political conflicts and national division over Islamization idea. According to...
View ArticleThe New Bill of Islamic Penal Code
In November 2007, the Iranian Judiciary has prepared a New Draft for the expiring current Islamic Penal Code. This new Draft is worth of attention from different perspective. In last days of December...
View ArticleNew Draft Law on Non-Islamic Morals in Afghanistan
As AFP from Kabul has reported the Afghan Parliament (Shuray-e Melli) is to proceed a new legislation that will ban women from wearing make-up in public and forbidding young boys from wearing female...
View ArticleSharia Travels? On Sharia Debate in the West from an Iranian-Islam Perspective
Traveling Sharia was a metaphor that emerged during the first seminar of the Humanities Section of the Max-Planck Society (MPS) on Islam-Forschung (Research on Islam) hosted by the Max-Planck...
View ArticlePolitical Initiative from Ruling Party in Pakistan for Abolition of Death Penal
Last week it was reported by DAWN, a leading Pakistani daily, that the ruling party (the PPP) are working on an unprecedented initiative on Abolishment of Capital Punishment in Pakistan. As DAWN...
View ArticleWhen the State plays Allah: alarming death penalty rate in Iran in 2010
Increasing numbers of death penalty in Iran year by year is alarming. This trend is completely against the global trend that shows a clrear decrease worldwide. In my view, the Iranian case needs...
View ArticleSymbolic Punishments from Theory to Practice: On Recent Cases of 74 Lashes to...
The images are shocking to the Iranian civil society and one becomes speechless how to comment on that. A student of political science (MA course) of Tehran university, Mr Peyman Aref, received 74...
View ArticleThe New Tunisian Constitution- A Success Model for a Secular Statebuilding in...
On January 26, the Tunisian Constitution 2014 was finally adopted, marking a historic groundbreaking event in the process of a democratic and open transition to a free and independent Tunisia. The...
View ArticleDeath penalty in the Libyan context after 2011
On 15 August 2018 the Criminal Circuit of the Court of Appeal of Tripoli reportedly sentenced sentenced 45 militiamen of Qaddafi regime to death for killing demonstrators in Tripoli in 2011, according...
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