Faṣlnāmah-i Pizhūhish-i Huqūq-i Kiyfarī (Feb 2015)
Woman in Criminal Procedure of Iran and France
Abstract
One of the important and considerable issues in international society isthe respect to rights of woman and man and nondiscrimination on sexuality.States have tried to take the benefit from the guidelines and achievements ofinternational society in the process of internal enactment as far as theconditions and circumstances of ruling on internal attitudes allow. Iranianand French legislators have also passed some laws regarding the specialbiological and physical conditions of women in the light of differential policywhich shows leniency toward the female criminals. In general, in Iranianand French criminal procedure, some different laws pro women and forprotection of them have been passed. However, absence of special protectivelaws especially on phase of police investigation and at the presence ofinvestigation authorities is evident in aforementioned law systems. What isobserved from the special cases of gender discrimination in trial system ofIran about the positive evidences and execution of the criminal sentencescan be removed through the wise legislative criminal policy, evolution injurisprudence, taking advantages from existing capacities in opinions ofjurists, enactment of special provisions in homogenization and balancingbetween rights of women and men about the determination of blood moneyof religious minorities and Muslims, modification of compulsive insurancelaw of civil liability of motor vehicles owners about necessity of samepayment of blood money of woman, and revocation of quality ofaforementioned instances.
