International Journal of Research in Social Sciences
  • Year: 2018
  • Volume: 8
  • Issue: 3

An Alysis of the protection of citizens’ rights and freedoms in the judicial system of Iran

  • Author:
  • Jahan Zahedi Fara1, Hasan Shirin Oranghi2, Mahmod Imani3
  • Total Page Count: 17
  • Page Number: 1 to 17

1Ph. D. student at Tehran University

2M. S of Criminal Law, University of Tabriz

3M. S in Public law, Faculty of Law and Social Science

Online published on 25 June, 2019.

Abstract

After that the citizens’ rights and freedoms are recognized and guaranteed at both international and regional levels as well as seen in the human rights instruments and documents and also provided by the reflection of rights and freedoms in the Constitutional laws of different countries, the current issue in the world today is to enforce and firmly support these rights at the country level. There is no exception to this rule for The Islamic Republic of Iran which has assigned in its Constitution a chapter, entitled The Nation's Rights, to the citizens’ rights and freedoms and in its legal system, it put the task to protect these rights and freedoms as on the head of duties of the institutions and legal authorities. One of these authorities is the judiciary which in various forms such as public courts, administrative justice court, state inspection agency, Islamic human rights Commission and based on the goals and duties for developing the justice and legitimate freedoms, protect citizens’ rights and freedoms. Hence, the present article considering the above-mentioned factors analyzes the judicial support and its various affiliated institutions in protecting citizens’ rights and freedoms.

Keywords

Juridical system, administrative justice court, public courts, state inspection agency, citizens’ rights and freedoms