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
MAY 15, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 1 man executed in Fereydun Kenar on May 15
Identified only as M. A.
MAY 15, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mohammad Padayar and Peyman Akbari Birgani executed in Khorramabad on May 15
MAY 14, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Saeed Arjumandi and Kayumars Menbari executed in Sanandaj on May 14
MAY 13, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 6 men executed in Kerman on May 13
Amrollah Adish, Kambiz Davarpanah and four unidentified men
MAY 13, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Iran is entitled to chair an event of the United Nation's Human Rights Council
The Iranian government tries to demean the opposition
MAY 12, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hossein Rigi executed in Mashhad on May 12
MAY 12, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 2 foreign citizens released from Iranian prisons
Benjamin Briere and Bernard Phelan
- MAY 11, 2023IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Hossein Shabanzadeh executed in Rasht on May 11
MAY 11, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Appointment of Iran to chair the UN Human Rights Council’s 2023 Social Forum
MAY 11, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIran - Supreme Court Upholds Death Sentences of Three Protesters
Saleh Mirhashemi, Majid Kazemi and Saeed Yaghoubi
MAY 10, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 men executed in Karaj on May 10
Hossein Panjak, Abdolhossein Emami Moghaddam and Babak Aghayi
MAY 10, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Between 29 April and 8 May, 118 people were executed in Iran
239 persone dall'inizio dell'anno