Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- A Note on Transliteration -- Preface -- Human Rights Discourse -- Main Sources Used in This Book -- UN Reports -- Prison Memoirs and Their Significance -- The Structure of the Book -- Chapter 1. Islamic Cultural Relativism in Human Rights Discourse -- Political Culture: Assuming the Failure of Secularization -- The Islamic Republic Claims Cultural Exceptionalism -- The Mirage of Cultural Authenticity -- The Irrelevance of Cultural Relativism -- Chapter 2. The Shiite Theocracy -- Institutionalizing the Shiite Theocracy: Velayat-e Faqih -- Ruling the Contemporary State: The Limits of Islamic Law -- Islamization of Society -- Political Context of Human Rights Violations During the 1980s -- Political Context of Human Rights Violations During the 1990s -- The Two Faces of the Religious State Under President Rafsanjani -- Muhammad Khatami's Presidency Since 1997 -- Chapter 3. The Right to Life -- Through the Prism of Prison Memoirs -- Monitoring Violations: The International Community During the 1980s -- Monitoring Violations: The International Community During the 1990s -- Executions for Drug Trafficking and Moral Crimes -- Extrajudicial Murders Outside Iran -- Chapter 4. The Right to Freedom from Torture -- Through the Prism of Prison Memoirs -- Monitoring Violations: The International Community During the 1980s -- Monitoring Violations: The International Community During the 1990s -- Chapter 5. The Right to Liberty and Security of Person and to Freedom from Arbitrary Arrest -- Through the Prism of Prison Memoirs -- Monitoring Violations: The International Community During the 1980s -- Monitoring Violations: The International Community During the 1990s -- Insecurity in Public Spaces and Private Homes -- Chapter 6. The Right to a Fair Trial -- Through the Prism of Prison Memoirs.

Monitoring Violations: The International Community During the 1980s -- Monitoring Violations: The International Community During the 1990s -- Chapter 7. The Right to Freedom of Conscience, Thought, and Religion -- Political Prisons as the Microcosm of the Ideal Islamic Society -- The Tawaban (Repentant Prisoners) -- Imposition of the Black Chador -- A Deluge of Religious Incantations and Rituals -- Prisoners and Their Islamic Educators -- Chapter 8. Renounce Your Conscience or Face Death -- The Relative Calm Before the Storm, 1984-88 -- The Summer Massacre -- A Painful Road to Release -- Chapter 9. The Right to Freedom of Thought, Conscience, and Religion -- Iranians of the Baha'i Faith -- Killings of Baha'i Leaders -- Making Allegiance to the Baha'i Faith More Difficult than Ever Before -- Sunni Muslim Citizens -- Citizens of Officially Recognized Religious Minorities -- The "Protected" Are Unequal -- Historical Predicament of Being " Protected" -- Recent Converts to Protestant Denominations -- Chapter 10. Official Responses to the United Nations -- Politicization of the Process -- Equivalency in Institutional Architecture and Formality of Written Law -- Preconditions for Cooperation -- The Militant Groups -- Iranian Baha'is -- Demanding Respect for Islamic -- Chapter 11. Change of Tactics After Ayatollah Khomeini's Death -- New Diplomatic Initiatives -- Presenting the Outlawed Political Groups as the Only Human Rights Violators -- Creating "Nongovernmental" Delegations and Groups -- Chapter 12. The Special Representative's Meetings with the Judiciary and Security Officials -- UN Visits to Evin Prison -- Discussions Meetings with the Judiciary Officials -- The Special Representative Remained Unconvinced -- Chapter 13. The Right to Freedom of Opinion, Expression, and the Press -- Political Context of the Violations -- Targeting the.

Resurfacing of Islamic Reformism -- "We Are Writers" -- The Chasm Separating Conservative Clerics and Secular Intellectuals -- Emerging Pattern of Violations During Rafsanjani's Presidency -- Khatami's Presidency and the New Political Context -- Rational Political Discourse De-legitimating Velayat-e Faqih and Revealing Past Violations -- Renewed Violations -- The Extrajudicial Killings of the -- The Wholesale Banning of Reformist Newspapers and Magazines -- Chapter 14. The Most Revealing Cases of Violations of the Right to Freedom of Expression and the Press -- The Death of Sa'idi Sirjani -- The Case of Faraj Sarkuhi -- The Cases of Dissident Ayatollahs and Their Associates -- The Cases of Mohsen Kadivar and Abdollah Nuri -- Chapter 15. The Rights to Participate in the Political Life of the Country and to Peaceful Assembly and Association -- The Extraconstitutional and Constitutional Exclusions -- The Guardian Council's Abuse of Its Power -- Open Protests Against Exclusionary Practices -- Formation of New Political Groups and the Reformists' Electoral Victories -- Chapter 16. The Rights of Women -- Discriminatory Laws and Practices Limiting Human Rights of All Women -- Women Fighting Back to Recover Lost Rights -- The Absence of Secular Voices -- Cultural Authenticity Reveiling Secular, Emancipated Women -- Violations of the Rights of Secular Women -- Chapter 17. UN Monitoring, 1984-2000 -- The Limitations of the UN Procedure -- The Embarrassed Cultural Relativists -- Governmental Human Rights Organizations -- Enduring Diplomatic Habits of Denials and Misrepresentations -- Conclusion -- Respect for Human Rights, a Precondition for Cultural Discussions -- The Islamic Republic Violates Rights Like Other States -- Particular Curses of the Religious State -- In Defense of State Secularism -- Afterword -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B.

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