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 23, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Unidentified woman executed on 23 May in Amol prison
135th since September 2013
MAY 23, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Unidentified man executed in Zanjan on May 23
- MAY 22, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Abdolbari Rigi, and Ms Hayati, a woman, executed in Shiraz on May 22
- MAY 22, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mohammad Morad Fazeli executed in Shirvan Prison on May 22
- MAY 22, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Elias Q. executed in Mashhad Prison on May 22
176 executions since the beginning of the year
- MAY 21, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Esmail Shahbakhsh executed in Zahedan on May 21
- MAY 21, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Report of the National Council of Resistance of Iran on the prison situation
MAY 21, 2022SwedenDEATH PENALTYIRAN - The wife of Ahmadreza Djalali called on the European Union to intervene
MAY 21, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Abdollah Barahouyi executed in Zahedan on May 21
- MAY 19, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Ahmad Gashoul executed in Isfahan on May 19
- MAY 18, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Ayat Ghasemi-Delfani executed in Karaj on May 18
- MAY 18, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Farshad Nematzadeh, Mehdi Shirchian and Eshaghi executed in Amol on May 18