Gholamreza Gholipour; Nasrin Mehra
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Abstract The right to fair trial is one of the fundamental human rights of humankind. Hence, this right has been now among constitutional norms and in the constitution of some countries it has been subject to constitutionalization. From a historical viewpoint, What important is the Mashruteh Constitution ...
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Abstract The right to fair trial is one of the fundamental human rights of humankind. Hence, this right has been now among constitutional norms and in the constitution of some countries it has been subject to constitutionalization. From a historical viewpoint, What important is the Mashruteh Constitution approach to fair trial, as a first constitution of Iran. The main question is that the drafters of this Act, what approach have to fair trial? This paper shows that drafters of Mashruteh Constitution and its complement (Motammem) dealt with “judicial security” and therefore recognized and constitutionalized a set of principles of fair trial such as legality, judiciality, privacy, judicial independence, access to justice, prohibition of unlawful arrest, etc. However, some other important principles such as presumption of innocence, access to a lawyer, prohibition of torture and etc were neglected. As a result, it can be concluded that the Mashruteh Constitution constitutionalized an incomplete version of fair trial.
Gholamreza Gholipour; nasrin mahra
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The idea of criminalizing ecocide as an international crime, for the first time, was raised in the 1970s. However, this green idea did not become an international criminal norm because of the opposition of some powerful governments, the resistance of large business enterprises, and preponderance of economic ...
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The idea of criminalizing ecocide as an international crime, for the first time, was raised in the 1970s. However, this green idea did not become an international criminal norm because of the opposition of some powerful governments, the resistance of large business enterprises, and preponderance of economic development discourse over environmental law discourse. At the time of drafting statute of the international criminal court (1998), "war ecocide" was criminalized only as one of the manifestations of war crimes, even that was accompanied with so many conditions and limitations that it has almost been impossible to effectively prosecute and try ecocide perpetrators. This resulted in the impunity of ecocide perpetrators all around the world and in the continuation of the gradual destruction of the earth and its vital resources. In order to put an end to this environmental impunity, it is imperative that the international community criminalize ecocide crime (in peacetime) as the most severe and most serious environmental crime and put this crime within the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court.
