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 15, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Abolfazl Heidarzadeh executed in Zanjan on December 15
617 executions since the beginning of the year
- DECEMBER 15, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mohammadali Seyedi executed in Qazvin on December 15
DECEMBER 15, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Sonia Sharifi, 17, charged with ‘waging war on God’
The young protester is at risk of death sentence
DECEMBER 15, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Yousef Mirza-Beigi executed in Qazvin on 15 December
DECEMBER 15, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ahmad Shariati executed in Kerman “in mid December”
The news reached the NGOs only on January 27, 2023.
- DECEMBER 14, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Reza Tajik executed in Karaj Central Prison on December 14
- DECEMBER 14, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN UN removes Iran from women's rights body
UNCSW, over protest crackdown
DECEMBER 14, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Five unidentified men executed in Rajai-Shahr Prison on December 14
DECEMBER 14, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mehdi Khoshbakht and Hamed Nobakht executed in Hamadan on December 14
DECEMBER 13, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Five Protestors Awaiting Execution in Karaj
Mohammad-Mehdi Karami, Seyyed Mohammad Hosseini, Hamid Ghara-Hasanlu and Hossein Mohammadi
- DECEMBER 12, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Asghar Alizadeh and Ebrahim Broujerdi executed in Khorramabad on December 12
- DECEMBER 12, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Abbas Hosseini and Ali Seyyedkhani executed in Qazvin on December 12