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CRIMINAL POLICY OF ISLAM AND THE POSITION OF IRAN'S CRIMINAL LAW ON FOOD RIGHTS VIOLATIONS

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Morteza Fathi¹, Ruhollah Akrami², Yousef Ahmadabadi³
» doi: 10.31838/ecb/2023.12.3.160

Abstract

Islam has paid special attention to rights to food and food health in such a way that its importance is mentioned in more than 300 verses of the Qur'an, and in addition to that, numerous traditions of the Infallible Imams indicate this issue, and on the other hand, the important place of food rights in Iran's criminal law system has not been neglected. According to this, in the current research, the main issue is based on the investigation of how the criminal policy approach of Islam and Iran is evaluated concerning human rights to food. Researchers have explained the problem with a descriptive and analytical method, and the most important results obtained indicate that in numerous verses and traditions, the right to access sufficient and nutritious food, healthy food, and halal (permissible) and pure food is emphasized and stipulated that these food rights are rooted in human rights and their violation is not allowed under any title and it is prohibited by the Holy Sharia with titles such as dissimulation, subreption and extravagance (dissipation) with the determination of worldly and hereafter punishments, and in parallel with criminal exposure to secure and maintain human rights to food, numerous preventive measures have also been introduced. To guarantee the right to food health, Iran's criminal policy foresees physical punishments up to various degrees of imprisonment, and fines, which the latter part is not a deterrent due to its insignificance, while the development of technical preventive measures has been forgotten.

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