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
- DECEMBER 12, 2023IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Ali Babaei executed in Shirvan on December 12
DECEMBER 12, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 5 men executed in Karaj on December 12
Amin Zakeri Kakavand, Khalil Haji Abadi, Milad Bideh, Hamid Bakshaish, and Hamid Esmaili
DECEMBER 12, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Sajad Haghizadeh executed in Khorramabad on December 12
DECEMBER 12, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Bahram Seyed Zadeh executed in Qom on December 12
DECEMBER 12, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Abolfazl Abdolmaleki executed in Qom on December 12
DECEMBER 12, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - The European Parliament officially awarded the Sakharov prize to Mahsa Amini
and the Woman, Life, Freedom protest movement
DECEMBER 12, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ali Bababyi executed in Shirvan on December 12
DECEMBER 11, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mahsa Amini's Family Decries Travel Ban on Eve of Human Rights Award Ceremony
The European Parliament’s prestigious Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought
DECEMBER 11, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Amin Jokar executed in Shiraz on December 11
DECEMBER 10, 2023NorwayDEATH PENALTYIRAN - (Norway) Narges Mohammadi's children collect the Nobel in place of their mother, detained in Iran
DECEMBER 10, 2023SwedenDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Swede Johan Floderus faces charges in Iran of spying for Israel
DECEMBER 9, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Abdul Basit Gorgich (Gorgij) and Abdul Aziz Shahlibur (Shahlibar) executed in Zahedan on December 9