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 PENALTYIRAN - Edris Gomshad-Zehi executed in Zahedan Prison on January 20
- JANUARY 20, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 6 men executed in Zahedan Prison on January 20
Khodanazar Kakar, Hosseinali Khomr, Abdolhamid Esmailzehi, Dadshah Sarani, Ataollah Barahouyi and Mehrollah Dehmardeh
JANUARY 20, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Three men executed in Zabol Prison on January 20
Mohammad Amin Dehmardeh, Parviz Akbarirad and Jamaleddin Gargij
JANUARY 20, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ali Yazdani executed in Rasht Prison on January 20
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 19, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 men executed in Ilam prison on January 19
Hamed Manouchehri, Sobhan Shohani and Mohammad Karim-Nezhad
JANUARY 19, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ali Jomeh Mohammadi executed on January 19
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 18, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Parviz Khodadadi executed in Dehdasht on January 18
JANUARY 18, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Sajjad ... executed at Adelabad Prison on January 18