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
FEBRUARY 18, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 1 woman and 1 man executed in Shiraz on February 18
Woman only identified as Bagherinejad, and Mehdi Iranian
FEBRUARY 18, 2025United KingdomDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Craig and Lindsay Foreman charged with espionage
British couple
FEBRUARY 18, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Death sentence of Mehrab Abdollahzadeh goes to Supreme Court
Kurdish political prisoner
FEBRUARY 18, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Yousef Kavarouyi executed in Kerman on February 18
FEBRUARY 18, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 56th Week of the “No to Execution Tuesdays” Campaign
FEBRUARY 17, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hossein Aliyari and Sadegh Nezakat executed in Qazvin and Neyshabur
On February 16 and 17
FEBRUARY 17, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 6 men executed in Isfahan on February 17
Ezzat Hosseini Doraki, Ali Es-haqi, Mohammad Shamseddin Arbab, Majid Baluch, Heydar Babaei and Burhan Wasim-Zehi
FEBRUARY 16, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Milad Farahmandijou executed in Behbahan on February 16
- FEBRUARY 16, 2025United KingdomDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - British couple arrested in Iran identified
Craig and Lindsay Foreman
FEBRUARY 16, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Saeed Jokar executed in Shiraz on February 16
FEBRUARY 16, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hengaw’s Statistical Report: 909 Executions in Iran in 2024
FEBRUARY 16, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hadi Farahani executed in Arak on February 16