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 10, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 2 unidentified men executed in Arak Prison on May 10
MAY 10, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mohammad Saber Payamian executed in Kermanshah on May 10
MAY 10, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Saber Payamian executed in Kermanshah on May 10
At least 52 Kurdish executed in Iran's prisons since the beginning of this year
MAY 10, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN Four unidentified men executed in Gohardasht on May 10
MAY 9, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Najmedin Eshaghzehi executed in Semnan on May 9
MAY 8, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 men executed on May 8: Mohammad Ahmadi, Yaser Rakhshani and Yunus Rigi Rakhshani
25 Baloch prisoners executed in the last 11 days
MAY 8, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Unidentified man executed in Dezful on May 8
MAY 8, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hossein Shahrouzi executed in Shiraz on May 8
MAY 8, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Yousef Mehrad and Sadrollah Fazeli Zare executed for blasphemy
MAY 8, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Unidentified man executed in Shiraz on May 8
MAY 8, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Bahman Zayerfar executed in Ahar on May 8
MAY 6, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Iran executed Swedish-Iranian dissident Habib Chaab
For “terrorism”