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
MARCH 15, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Four men executed in Mashhad Prison on March 15
For gang-raping a woman
MARCH 14, 2021United KingdomDEATH PENALTYIRAN - New trial for Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe
Charges of “propaganda against the system”
MARCH 14, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Nasser Valizadeh executed at Urmia Prison on March 14
For murder
MARCH 14, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Nafiseh Pakmehr, a woman, executed in the Prison of Taybad on March 14
116th woman hanged since Hassan Rouhani became president
MARCH 14, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hossein Akchin executed in Ardabil Prison on March 14
For murder
MARCH 14, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Alireza Ghorbani executed in Shiraz Central Prison on March 14
For murder
- MARCH 14, 2021IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Arash Waresi executed at Zanjan prison on March 14
For murder
MARCH 13, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Woman Hanged; Daughter Carried Out the Execution
Maryam Karimi executed in Rasht Prison on March 13
MARCH 11, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ss of March 10, 2021, the death toll from Coronavirus exceeded 229,600
According to PMOI / MEK
MARCH 9, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - UN Report: women second hand citizens
Javaid Rehman, UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Iran
MARCH 8, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Asef Taghinejad executed in Tabriz Prison on March 8
For murder
- MARCH 7, 2021United KingdomDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Iran frees British-Iranian aid worker Zaghari-Ratcliffe
Her British passport has not been returned to her