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
JANUARY 9, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hassan Norouzi executed in Qom on January 9
JANUARY 8, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Sixth execution reported in Karaj (Ghezel Hesar) on Jan. 8
An unidentified Afghan
JANUARY 8, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hamid Ashna (Noutizehi) executed in Kerman on January 8
JANUARY 8, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Abdorrahman Boroumand Center Year-End report
Iran Executed At Least 938 in 2024
JANUARY 8, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Milad Baoo Dieselabadi executed in Sari on January 8
JANUARY 8, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Death Sentence upheld for Pakhshan Azizi
Kurdish political prisoner
JANUARY 8, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 5 men executed in Karaj (Ghezel-Hesar) on January 8
Salman Bozorgmehr, Reza Azizian, and Ashkan Pirian + 2 Unk
JANUARY 8, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Italian Journalist Cecilia Sala Released
JANUARY 7, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 men executed in Kermanshah on January 7
Mozafar Shahsavari, Mohammad Shahidi, and Ashkan Kazemi
- JANUARY 7, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Alireza Mehrabadi executed in Sabzevar on January 7
JANUARY 7, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Volker Türk "deeply troubled by the marked increase in executions in Iran in 2024"
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
JANUARY 7, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Death sentences for Behrouz Ehsani and Mehdi Hassani
Political prisoners accused of belonging to the PMOI