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
FEBRUARY 8, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 5 men executed in Ghezel Hesar
Ahmad Heydari, Farhad Heydari, Saeed Malekian, Amirhossein Mayeli, Ahmad Farhad Heydari
FEBRUARY 8, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Narges Mohammadi sentenced to seven and a half years
Nobel Peace Prize laureate and civil rights activist
FEBRUARY 8, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Firouz Mohammadi Executed in Khorramabad on February 8
FEBRUARY 8, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 9 men executed
FEBRUARY 8, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Alarm over systematic sexual torture and summary courts against protesters
- FEBRUARY 7, 2026IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 13 men executed on February 7
Ali Faza Khoshneshin, Farshad Sheikhi, Avin Sorkhi, Jafar Faryadi, Ali Sarlakabad, Sosha Moradi, Behzad Mashayekhi, Mohammad Ali Saeedloo, Morad Goli, Abolfazl Naqvi + 3
FEBRUARY 7, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 100.000 Iranian exiles demonstrated in Berlin
FEBRUARY 7, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ali Mirdar executed in Gorgan on February 7
FEBRUARY 7, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Babak Amraei and Mohammadghasem Amraei executed in Khorramabad on February 7
FEBRUARY 7, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Victim Accounts: Why Mahsa Dezfulian’s Family Kept Her Body at Home Overnight
FEBRUARY 7, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hrana Report on Day 42 of the Protests: 6,961 confirmed deaths, 11,630 under review
FEBRUARY 6, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Naser Bekrzadeh Sentenced to Death for the Third Time
On charges of “espionage for Israel"