A Brief Study of the Criminal Substantive and Procedural Provisions in the Law of Iran

Today, the development of cyberspace and communication of digital data has provided a broad activity of electronic publications. But lack of defined rules for these publications, the examination of this issue have made more important whether the available rules for publications in print (writing) form can be regulated to these publications. Can, in other words; the privileges in the judicial examination to the violations of the print publications (like competent trial, the presence of the jury...) be applied to the violations of the electronic publications? This note has tried to analyze how to generalize the substantive criminal and procedural statutes in order to clear the vagueness of the generalization of these rules to the electronic publications.