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
JULY 23, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Iman Sabzikar publicly executed in Shiraz on of July 23
JULY 23, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Esmail Narouyi and Khaled Paraki executed in Zahedan on July 23
JULY 23, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Shokat Shehbakhsh executed in Zahedan on July 23
JULY 23, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 4 men executed in Zabol on July 23
Farhad Kouhkan, Davoud Amirzadeh, Hamid Jahangard and Habib Totazehi
JULY 23, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 4 executions in Qom Central Prison also known as Langroud Prison
3 on 23 July, one on 9 July
JULY 23, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Seyyed Sarrajul Haq Siddiqui executed on July 23 in Shiraz prison
JULY 23, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ali Sabahi and Mohammad Hossein Hasanipour executed in Shiraz on July 23
- JULY 22, 2022BelgiumDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Belgium. Brussels Court suspended the transfer of Assadollah Assadi
- JULY 21, 2022BelgiumDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Belgium. Belgium Ratifies Much-Criticized Prisoner Swap Treaty With Iran
JULY 21, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Execution of 2 men and 1 woman in Yazd prison
137 women executed in Iran since 2013
JULY 21, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Four inmates executed in Borujerd, Birjand, and Yazd Prisons
On July 11 and 21
- JULY 20, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Unidentified man executed in Qom on July 20