Protection of the Cultural Rights of Prisoners in International, Regional Instruments and Iranian Legal System

Crime commitment turns the relationship between the law-abiding citizen and the state into an unbalanced relationship between the criminal citizen and the state. The requirement of fairness and the goals of criminal justice is to make the protection of rights in accordance with the process of correction and re-socialization of the criminal, including cultural rights. Considering its importance and efficiency in criminal re-socialization, what place does cultural law have in domestic and international legal documents? The term "cultural rights"; it is a product of the United Nations Charter and an integral part of human rights. The different types of these rights and the guarantees of their general and specific implementation in domestic legal documents including the Constitution, the Executive Regulations of the Organization of Prisons and Security and Educational Measures approved in 2004 and the Charter of Citizen Rights approved in 2015 and international documents including the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted in 1948, International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, adopted in 1966, Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, adopted in 2008, the minimum rules of the United Nations in the treatment of prisoners, adopted in 1955 can be seen.