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
OCTOBER 2, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hossein Hedayati executed in Amol Prison on October 2
For murder
OCTOBER 1, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 4 inmates executed in Adelabad Prison in Shiraz on October 1
At least 277 executions in Iran so far in 2021
SEPTEMBER 30, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mashallah Sabzi Executed
Based on Qassameh Testimony
- SEPTEMBER 29, 2021IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Amirhossein Hatemi died under torture on September 23
At the Greater Tehran Penitentiary
SEPTEMBER 29, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Yasin Abdullahi executed in Zahedan Prison on September 29
For murder
SEPTEMBER 29, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Abbasgholi Salehi, Hamid Shahsanayi and Mohammad Barahouyi executed in Isfahan on September 29
81 executions for drug related crimes
SEPTEMBER 29, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Farhad Salehi-Jabehdar executed in Karaj Prison on September 29
On rape charges
- SEPTEMBER 25, 2021IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Sohrab Naji and Vahab Samadi executed in Shiraz on September 25
Naji for drugs, Samadi for murder
SEPTEMBER 23, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mass executions in prisons in the north of the country in September
SEPTEMBER 23, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hrana received reports regarding mass executions
in Taybad, Torbat-e Jam, and Mashhad prisons
SEPTEMBER 22, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ahmad Forouhid executed in Boroujerd Prison on September 22
For murder
- SEPTEMBER 22, 2021IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Unidentified man executed in Karaj Prison on September 22
for murder during a robbery