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
FEBRUARY 21, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Unidentified prisoner executed in Mashhad on February 21
- FEBRUARY 21, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Reza Gh. Executed in Mashhad on February 21
FEBRUARY 19, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hamed Kheradmand Executed in Zahedan on February 19
- FEBRUARY 18, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Official Decries EP’s Resolution on Death Penalty in Iran
Kazem Gharibabadi, the secretary-general of Iran’s Human Rights Office
FEBRUARY 17, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - On February 17, European Parliament adopted a resolution in Iran
On the human rights situation
FEBRUARY 17, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN: 85 MINORS IN THE DEATH ROW (AS OF NOVEMBER 2021)
UN human rights experts on 25 November 2021 strongly condemned the execution of Arman Abdolali, convicted for an alleged murder committed when he was 17, and demanded that Iran stop sentencing children to death.
FEBRUARY 16, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Kazem Yousefi Executed in Isfahan on February 16
FEBRUARY 14, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Juvenile offender Mohammadreza Hadadi’s conviction overturned
19 years on death row
FEBRUARY 13, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mokhtar Valizadeh executed in Shiraz on February 13
FEBRUARY 13, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Idris Shahbakhsh executed in Zahedan prison on February 13
- FEBRUARY 13, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mokhtar Valizadeh executed in Shiraz on February 13
FEBRUARY 13, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mossayeb Faraji executed in Dizelabad Prison on February 13