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Regarding Balqays Khanum's petition
Correspondence about Balqays Khanum's petition regarding her nephew, Muhammad. Balqays writes that Muhammad was falsely accused of murder. Therefore, she sought help to save him.
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Killing of man convicted of rape, 1911
He was shot by the police while attempting to escape confinement.
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Murder of three-year-old daughter, 1911
A man, who has two wives, kills his own daughter from his first wife, so that he could divorce her mother.
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Letter from Fatimah Baygum to Iran-i naw, 1911
From Fatimah Baygum, mother of Husayn Khan Sardar Afkhami, complaining about her son's imprisonment
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Investigation about the death of a woman, 1911
A woman's relatives claim that she died after being beaten by her husband, while the husband's family claims that the husband was not home and she was ill. The husband remains in custody while the investigation into the cause of death continues.
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Complaint against Husayn Ra’uf Bayg and the Ottoman camp, 1915
Includes a petition to the Majlis regarding the harassment by Husayn Ra’uf Bayg and the Ottoman army in Karand, ruining and pillaging villages, the arrest and execution of the people of the Kalhur, Sanjabi, and Guran clans, and the capture of fifty women from the families residing in the vicinity of the Karand caravansary and accusing them of theft. Also includes a petition to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs regarding Ra’uf Bayg and Ottomans harassing people who live near the borders and the attack by Isma‘il Haqi Bayg on the Sanjabi clan, ruining and setting fire to the village of Hajim...
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Murder in response to assault, 1910
Letter from Ahmad Mujallal al-Mulk, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ representative in Urumiyah about Benjamin, a Christian employee of the French missionaries who killed Petrus, a Christian Ottoman national, after he assaulted Benjamin’s daughter, Benjamin’s consequent arrest and imprisonment by the Ottoman Shahbandar, and Shahbandar’s dismissing the request for holding a trial. After Benjamin's temporary release following his illness and his complaint against his prolonged imprisonment in the absence of any trials, the writer repeated his request for a trial, only to be refused again by...