A Legal Study on Freedom of Sit-in in Comparison to Freedom of Assembly in the Islamic Republic of Iran

The right to sit-in is one of civil liberties and a negative one. Sit-in is an organized and peaceful assembly to say opinions in which the people sit in a special place to reach their goals. Although the constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran, in particular, did not mention the word sit-in, the term sit-in has been mentioned in the statutes and regulations on numerous occasions. In fact, freedom of sit-in is one of the collective liberties and stands under the principle 27. According to the constitution, not violating the fundamental principles of Islam and not carrying arms are the conditions of a legal sit-in.
This paper, pays to the conceptual analysis of sit-in and its historical, theoretical and legal foundations, by a comparative approach to the notion of freedom of assembly and its conditions then examines the legal status of freedom of sit-in and its condi tions in the legal system of the Islamic Republic of Iran.