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 3, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ali Majidi executed in Qazvin on December 3
DECEMBER 3, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 4 men executed in Birjand on December 3
Mohammad Naeimi Far (Brahui), Ahmad Shahoo-Zahi, Maziar Narooie, and Hamid Sarani
DECEMBER 2, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - European Union: Current Pace Of Executions In Iran ‘Appalling’
NOVEMBER 30, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Naser Alizehi and Naser Ozbakzehi executed in Zahedan on November 30
769 executions since the beginning of the year
NOVEMBER 30, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Protester Kamran Rezaei executed in Shiraz on November 30
NOVEMBER 30, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 118 Kolbars killed or wounded in November
mountain carriers
NOVEMBER 29, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ayoub Karimi executed in Karaj on November 29
A Kurdish religious prisoner
NOVEMBER 29, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Moradkhan Geravand and Morad Biranvand executed in Khorramabad on November 29
NOVEMBER 29, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Massoud Basak executed in Kashan on November 29
NOVEMBER 28, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Two more men executed on November 28 in Ilam
Unk so far
NOVEMBER 28, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Eghbal Fathollahi and Mohsen Amraie executed in Karaj on November 28
NOVEMBER 28, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hani Shahbazi (Al-Boushehbazi) executed in Ahvaz on November 28.
Shahbazi was arrested during the November 2019 protests