Iran
2026
STATUSRetentionist
EXECUTIONS 2026869
SENTENCES0
- GOVERNMENT
- theocratic republic
- CONSTITUTION
- December 1979, revised in 1989 to extend presidential power
- LEGAL SYSTEM
- based on Sharia law
- LEGISLATIVE SYSTEM
- unicameral, Islamic Consultative Assembly (Majles-e-Shura-ye-Eslami)
- JUDICIAL SYSTEM
- Supreme Court
RELIGIONS
Shia majority; 10% Sunni; Christian, Jewish, Bahá'í, and Zoroastrian minorities
From the country
AUGUST 20, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 4 men executed in Isfahan on August 20
Hossein Karimi, Reza Abbasi, Taleb Reikani, Morteza Sayvand.
AUGUST 20, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Amir Mohammad Faroughi executed in Qorveh on August 20
AUGUST 20, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Naghi Shahi executed in Tabriz on August 20
AUGUST 20, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mokhtar Fazeli executed in Ahvaz on August 20
AUGUST 20, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Vali-Karam Jaberi executed in Qazvin on August 20
- AUGUST 20, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Naghi Shahi and Yashar Lejehi executed in Tabriz on August 20
- AUGUST 20, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Morteza Sayvand and Reza Abbasi executed in Isfahan on August 20
AUGUST 19, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Sajad Molayi Hakani executed in public on August 19
IHR considers it particularly serious that children witness hangings.
AUGUST 19, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 men executed in Kerman on August 19
Hassan Kahrazehi, Abedin Kahrazehi, Milad Narouyi
- AUGUST 19, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Behzad Zeinali executed in Arak on August 19
- AUGUST 19, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Hafiz Siahkhani executed in Iranshahr on August 19
AUGUST 19, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Six men executed in Bandar Abbas on August 19