Strategies of NGO Participation in the Criminal Procedure (A Critical Review of Artcile (66) of the Iranian Criminal Procedure Code)

The "NGOs" and the participation of these organizations in the criminal process is one of the effects of "cooperative criminal policy", which, in addition to the protection aspect of the victim, especially regarding the particular victim, plays an important role in the realization of the citizenship rights and the prevention of the secondary victimization. In addition, in areas where the plaintiff can not easily enter them and the proceeding is difficult, public organizations, which today are sometimes called "private prosecutors" or "quasi-prosecutors", interact with the prosecutor and try to protect the rights of the community and individuals in the debate about the declaration of the crime, adducing evidence, the protest against the sentences and so forth. In this article, considering the innovation of the criminal procedure code ratified in 1392 , we have tried to investigate the criminal offense (article 66) regarding the participation of these organizations and the conditions for their intervention in the criminal process and the existing challenges and deficiencies in this regard, including the development of these organizations in Iran and the gap available in this field, will be analyzed and criticized.