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
OCTOBER 30, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Jalal Vahdati and Khalil Mohammadi executed in Khorramabad on October 30
OCTOBER 30, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Jalil Nutizehi executed in Isfahan on October 30
648 executions so far in 2023
OCTOBER 30, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Unidentified man executed on October 30
At an unspecified prison in Golestan province
OCTOBER 30, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Heydar Salkhord, Shahab Sadeghzadeh, and Mansour Taqvaei executed in Shiraz on October 30
OCTOBER 30, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 87 executions in October
OCTOBER 29, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Armita Garavand was buried amid tight security in Tehran on October 29
Nasrin Sotoudeh was beaten and arrested at the funeral
OCTOBER 29, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Shamsollah Banani executed in Ahar on October 29
OCTOBER 28, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Teenage Armita Garavand (Geravand) Dies In Hospital
OCTOBER 28, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Davood Behzadi executed in Esfarayen on October 28
672 executions in Iran in 2023
OCTOBER 26, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Amir Hossein Dashtban executed in Tabriz on October 26
OCTOBER 26, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 5 men executed in Birjand on October 26
Abdolbasir Mohammadani (Rend), Mohammad Nabi Shahuzehi (Lojei), Mohammad Mirshah, Reza Shahraki and Omid Javini
OCTOBER 26, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - A man executed in "one of Tehran's prisons"
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