EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

The present text is the chapter 7 of Islamic Totalitarianism, Illusion or Reality, An analysis of the Islamic Republic's penitentiary system and the effort of the prisons' authorities to control the mind of the detainees. The author, Chahla Chafiq is a sociologist, and a woman rights adovcate, she has written several books on women rights situation in the Islamic of Iran.

The present text is the chapter 5 of Islamic Totalitarianism, Illusion or Reality, An analysis of the Islamic Republic's penitentiary system and the effort of the prisons' authorities to control the mind of the detainees. The author, Chahla Chafiq is a sociologist, and a woman rights adovcate, she has written several books on women rights situation in the Islamic of Iran. The book was first published in French by Editions du Felin.

The present text is chapter 7 of Human Rights in Iran, The Abuse of Cultural Relativism by Reza Afshari. Dr. Afshari, a Professor of History and Human Rights at Pace University, investigates how Islamic culture and Iranian politics since the fall of the Shah have affected human rights policy in that state. He exposes the human rights violations committed by ruling clerics in Iran since the Revolution, showing that Iran has behaved remarkably like other authoritarian governments in its human rights abuses. For over two decades, Iran has systematically jailed, tortured, and executed dissidents without due process of law and assassinated political opponents outside state borders. Furthermore, like other oppressive states, Iran has regularly denied and countered the charges made by United Nations human rights monitors, defending its acts as authentic cultural practices. In the present chapter, Reza Afshari analyzes the nature of the Islamic Republic's penitentiary and its ambition to control the minds and souls of the detainees.

مقاله حاضر در جورنال اف دموکراسی (جلد سیزده، شماره دو) در ماه آوریل سال دو هزار و دو به چاپ رسید. نویسندگان به بررسی ریشه های ایدئولوژیک تروریسم اسلامیست پرداخته اند.

The present article by one of Iran's eminent human rights lawyers, Dr. Abdolkarim Lahidji, was published in the journal Iran Nameh (volume 19,1-2,2001).

The present text is the chapter 5 of Tortured Confessions, prisons and public recantations in modern Iran.The author, Dr. Ervand Abrahamian, who is Professor of History at Baruch College, City University of New York, investigates the role of torture in recent Iranian politics. Chapter 5 is dedicated to coerced confessions in the Islamic Republic's judicial system.