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This document is the first round of objections raised by the Guardian Council in reviewing the Criminal Procedure Bill (2012). 

This document reflects changes made to the Criminal Procedure Bill following the objections of the Guardian Council.

This documents is the third round of objections raised by the Guardian Council in reviewing the Criminal Procedure Bill.

This documents is the fourth round of objections raised by the Guardian Council in reviewing the Criminal Procedure Bill.

This document reflects the final changes in the Criminal Procedure Bill following the objections of the Guardian Council.

After several revisions made to the original Criminal Procedure Code according to the opinion of the Guardian Council this law became final and entered into force.

Parliament introduced a bill amending 38 articles of the Criminal Procedure Code adopted a year before.

After revising the first draft according to the opinion of the Guardian Council the law amending 38 articles of the Criminal Procedure Code 2014 became final.

This documents is the second round of objections raised by the Guardian Council in reviewing the Criminal Procedure Bill.

This document contains revisions to the Criminal Procedure Bill following the objections of the Guardian Council.

This document contains revisions to the Criminal Procedure Draft following the objections of the Guardian Council.

This documents is the fifth and last round of objections raised by the Guardian Council in reviewing the Criminal Procedure Bill.

Guardian Council raises objections to Parliament’s draft on amending the provisions of the Criminal Procedure Code 2014.

In this opinion, addressed to the Official Gazette, the Secretary of the Guardian Council invalidated Article 26 –Note 1 of the Law on the Formation, Duties, and Election of National Islamic Councils 1996. He argued that because Guardian Council does not have any supervisory authority over the decisions of the City Councils (unlike legislative acts), religious minorities could not represent Muslims where majority of residents are Muslims.

In a Q&A fatwa format, Ayatullah Sayyid Ali Husaini Sistani is asked whether it is permissible to slaughter an animal, based on the Islamic halal rituals, that has been stunned before slaughter. It is noted that this way of slaughtering an animal–using the technology to stun– the animal has become common. The answer published is yes.  

In two Q&A fatwas, Ayatollah Nasir Makarim Shirazi is asked about the permissibility of electrical shock to the animal (stunning) before zibh (ritual slaughter). Ayatollah Nasir Makarim Shirazi allows for such conduct as long as the animal is not dead as a result of stunning. He goes one step further in calling stunning the animal a preferred method if it is proven that it reduces the pain of the animal.

A female applicant filed a complaint against the Traffic Police for refusing to grant her a motorcycle license. The Court of Administrative Justice rejected the argument that the police department was allowed to issue such a license only for men and stated that riding a motorcycle has nothing to do with gender and is not prohibited under law.

The plaintiff brought a case before the General Court of Roudehen seeking the Court’s authorization for remarriage. The Court rejected his claimed and stated that Article 16 of the Family Protection Law 1974 was unconstitutional.

The General Body of The Supreme Court of Iran issued a unifying decision requiring the Fund for Bodily Injuries to pay the difference in diyah of men and women both in cases of death and other bodily injuries.