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 20, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Ali Yazdani executed in Rasht Prison on January 20
- JANUARY 20, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 3 men executed in Zabol on January 20
Parviz Akbari Rud, Jamaleddin Gorgij and Dadshah Sarani
JANUARY 20, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Eshagh Mohammadamin executed in Isfahan on January 20
- JANUARY 19, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 3 men executed in Ilam prison on January 19
Hamed Manouchehri, Sobhan Shohani and Mohammad Karim-Nezhad
- JANUARY 19, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Ali Jomeh Mohammadi executed on January 19
JANUARY 19, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Shahrokh Khodadadi, 16-year-old boy, killed in a fight
Quarrel between the families of victim and of executed inmate
JANUARY 19, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Eghbal Mastoufi and Houshang Khan Mohammadi executed in Khorramabad on January 19
- JANUARY 18, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Parviz Khodadadi executed in Dehdasht on January 18
- JANUARY 18, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Sajjad ... executed at Adelabad Prison on January 18
JANUARY 18, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Nobel laureates call for the immediate release of Ali Younesi and Amirhossein Moradi
JANUARY 18, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Year-end report by the KHRN
NGO focuses the Kurdish minority in Iran
JANUARY 17, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Valijan Rahmi executed in Qom Central Prison on January 17