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
- MARCH 29, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Abbas Fatehi executed in Gorgan on March 29
MARCH 29, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Morteza Saadatpour Zeini and Mohsen Hedayat executed in Tabriz on March 29
MARCH 29, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Yasser Roshani (Yaser Roshan) executed in Arak on March 29
MARCH 29, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - A woman, Mahnaz Kakaei, and Ali Sufian executed in Isfahan on March 29
MARCH 26, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - NCRI report: 1,153 Executions in Persian Year 1403
A 42% Surge Compared to 1402
MARCH 26, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Death Sentence of Hamid Hosseinnezhad Upheld
Kurdish Political Prisoner
MARCH 25, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 61st week of the “No to Execution Tuesday” campaign
MARCH 20, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Olivier Grondeau released
MARCH 17, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hatam Shahpasandi executed in Boroujerd on March 17
245 esecuzioni dall'inizio dell'anno
MARCH 16, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 4 persons, not 3, executed in Urmia on March 16
Mojgan Azarpisheh, Kosar Ghorbani, Arshad Farzadband e Hamed Faraji
MARCH 16, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Yaser Jahanbani executed in Hamedan on March 16
MARCH 16, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 2 women and a man executed in Urmia on March 16
Mojgan Azarpisheh, Kosar Bagherzadeh, and Arshad Farzadband