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
APRIL 30, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - “Forgiveness”
662 forgiveness cases in 2020, compared to 211 qisas executions
APRIL 27, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - “Show Trials” of Dual Nationals Will Continue Until International Reaction
CHRI urges P5+1 to take stand
APRIL 26, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Nazanin Sentenced to Another Year Behind Bars
British-Iranian hostage Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe
APRIL 26, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Habibullah Sheikh-Hossein executed on April 26
In Sabzevar Prison, on drug charges
- APRIL 24, 2021IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN -Seyyed Sadrollah Fazeli Zare is the second man sentenced to death for "insulting the Prophet"
APRIL 24, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 6 men executed in Birjand Prison on April 24
Baluch men sentenced on drug-related charges
APRIL 22, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Two men sentenced to death for insulting the Prophet Muhammad
Only one of the men has been identified: Yousef Mehrad
APRIL 20, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Iran at the bottom of reporters’ freedom
According to Reporters Sans Frontières Iran ranks 174 amid 180
APRIL 18, 2021UkraineDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Unsolved Case of Ukraine’s Flight 752
Downed By Iran’s IRGC
APRIL 17, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Cellmate Describes Torture and Humiliation of Ali Younesi
APRIL 15, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Djalali moved out of solitary
Says Amnesty
APRIL 14, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Death sentence of Arsalan Khodkam commuted to life imprisonment
A Kurdish political prisoner