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
- SEPTEMBER 19, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Sirus Sha’alani executed in Karaj on September 19
SEPTEMBER 16, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mahsa Amini passed away in hospital today
A 22-year-old woman arrested by the Guidance Patrol on September 14
SEPTEMBER 13, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ali Hemat Estaki and an unidentified man executed in Daran Prison
SEPTEMBER 12, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ahmed Panahi Khanqa executed in Ardabil on September 12
SEPTEMBER 11, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mehdi Aghosh executed in Zanjan on September 11
SEPTEMBER 11, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hassan Agha Mohammadi executed in Isfahan on September 11
SEPTEMBER 11, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mehran Noormohammadi executed in Isfahan on September 11
SEPTEMBER 10, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 4 men and 1 woman executed in Zahedan on September 10
142nd woman to be executed in 9 years
SEPTEMBER 10, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mansour Brahui executed in Birjand on September 10
SEPTEMBER 7, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ghafour Nejatpour executed in Gonbad Kavous on September 7
SEPTEMBER 7, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 7 men executed in Gohardasht on September 7
3 identified as Abolfazl Shahi, Mohammad Arab and Khosro Nourbakhsh
SEPTEMBER 7, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Yar Mohammad Eshaghzehi executed in Bandar Abbas on September 7