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
NOVEMBER 13, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Salar Shamipour Zardkhaneh and Ali Abedini executed in Jiroft (or Tabriz) on November 13
NOVEMBER 13, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 6 men sentenced to death
In the “Ekbatan Case”
NOVEMBER 13, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Activist Kianoosh Sanjari took his own life
In Tehran on November 13
NOVEMBER 13, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 1 woman, 6 men executed in Karaj (Ghezel-Hesar) on November 13
Unk woman + Khaled Tajik, Ahmad Alizadeh, Saman Bozorgi, Hamzeh Tarkashvand, Jafar Rastgar, Mohsen Moradi
NOVEMBER 13, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ahmad Alizadeh executed in Karaj (Ghezel-Hesar) on November 13
He was previously hanged for 28 seconds before being resuscitated
NOVEMBER 12, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mohammad Ali Salamat publicly executed in Hamedan on November 12
NOVEMBER 12, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 42nd week of “No to Executions on Tuesdays” campaign
NOVEMBER 12, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Zakaria Alizehi executed in Zahedan on November 12
NOVEMBER 11, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hamzeh Jahanian and Javad Dolabi executed in Karaj (Central) on November 11
NOVEMBER 11, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Death sentence for Kurdish political prisoner Verisheh Moradi
- NOVEMBER 10, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 1 more man executed in Rasht on November 7
Sadegh Khorshidi
NOVEMBER 10, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Saman Karimi executed in Yasuj on November 10