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
JANUARY 3, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 death sentences of protesters overturned
Hamid Qareh Hasanlou, Hossein Mohammadi and Reza Arya
JANUARY 3, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Protester Mansour Dahmardeh sentenced to death
JANUARY 2, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 623 executions in 2022 in Iran
273 more prisoners executed than last year
- JANUARY 2, 2023IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Clemency in Gen Soleimani’s commemoration
16 death penalty commuted, 3,000 inmates freed
JANUARY 2, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ahmed Bachagchi and Azizbeg Hosseini executed in Karaj on January 2
JANUARY 2, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mehdi Mohammadi-Fard, age 18, sentenced to death twice
Arrested at protests on September 30, 2022, in Nowshahr
DECEMBER 30, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Stories of 5 men sentenced to death for alleged crimes linked to anti-regime protests
Hamid Ghare-Hasanlou, Mohammad Mehdi Karami, Hossein Mohammadi, Seyyed Mohammad Hosseini, Reza Arya.
DECEMBER 29, 2022ItalyDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Iran summons Italian ambassador over protests solidarity
DECEMBER 29, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Iranian author sentenced to death
For urging peace in Israel TV interview
DECEMBER 29, 2022ItalyDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Italian PM Meloni Says Repression Of Protesters In Iran ‘Unbearable’
DECEMBER 28, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hamidreza and Mohsen Nejati executed in Rajai Shahr Prison on December 28
DECEMBER 28, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Davoud Rahmatali executed in Shiraz on December 28
645 executions since the beginning of the year