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
JUNE 26, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hashem Torabi executed in Zahedan Prison on June 26
For murder
JUNE 26, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Abdulhamid Ghanbarzehi and another man executed in Zahedan Prison on June 26
For murder
JUNE 23, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - UN High Commissioner for Human Rights severely criticises Iran
Michelle Bachelet at a session of the Human Rights Council in Geneva
- JUNE 22, 2021IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Tehran slams UN report on human rights violations.
Blames US for inspiring it
JUNE 21, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Habib Rezaei executed in Salmas Prison on June 21
For murder
JUNE 20, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ramin Saadat-Beiglou executed in Qazvin Prison on June 20
For murder
JUNE 9, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Unidentified man hanged on June 9
In Rajai Shahr Prison, for murder
JUNE 9, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Bill Targeting Citizen Journalists Passed Parliamentary Judiciary Commission
Spreading inforrmation seen as "espionage"
JUNE 7, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Political Prisoner Sasan Niknafas died in custody
IHR Holds Islamic Republic Leaders Responsible
JUNE 6, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Shahin Mirkhani executed in Shirvan Prison on June 6
For drugs
JUNE 2, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ebrahim Ahmadi executed on 2 June in Tabriz Prison
For murder
MAY 31, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Sexual abuse and harassment systematically to break the will of incarcerated women
May 27 group discussion on the Clubhouse social-media app