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 9, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Europe must make the serious consequences of executing Ahmadreza Djalali clear
To Islamic Republic officials
MAY 8, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Four men executed in Shiraz on May 8
Abbas Pajmordeh, Ali Pajmordeh, Mohammad Gholamhosseini and Ali Hossein Pahan
- MAY 7, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 3 Men and a Woman Executed in Zahedan on May 7
The number of women executed in Iran since the summer of 2013 reaches 132
MAY 7, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Yousef Naderi and Abolfazl Hassan Moradi Executed in Qom on May 7
- MAY 4, 2022SwedenDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Sweden. Ahmadreza Djalali at Imminent Risk of Execution
The international community should react in time
- MAY 2, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Top official on women’s affairs encourages child marriage
Ensieh Khazali
- MAY 2, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Sweden. Iran summoned Sweden’s ambassador
following a request by Swedish prosecutors for life imprisonment for Hamid Noury
MAY 2, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Maryam Kargardastjerdi, a special woman
She saved 32 men from the gallows
APRIL 28, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - IHR Annual Report on the Death Penalty - 2021
At least 333 people were executed in 2021
- APRIL 27, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Fakhreddin Waledi and Hossein Joushan in executed in Isfahan on April 27
APRIL 25, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ali Younesi and Amirhossein Moradi Sentenced to 16 Years Imprisonment
Earlier threats to sentence them to death
APRIL 14, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Death in Custody of Protester Mehdi Salehi Ghaleh Shahrokhi
Iran Human Rights Calls for International Fact-Finding Mission