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 17, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Kheirullah Goljani and Kamran Manafi executed in Qazvin on January 17
JANUARY 17, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN Hrana report on 20th day of protests: 3,090 deaths confirmed
Another 3,880 cases are under scrutiny
JANUARY 17, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Six more women, one pregnant, killed in Iran’s crackdown
Sholeh Sotoudeh, Sara Behboodi, Ziba Dastjerdi, Zahra Bagheri, Sanam Pourbabayi, Aida Aghili
JANUARY 17, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Seven more minors killed in Iran protests
Amir Mohammad Arbabpouri, Melina Asadi, Sam Afshari, Abolfazl Heydari-Moslou, Mohammad Ghasem-Rousta, Mehrab Golestani, Amir Salar Bahmaninejad
JANUARY 17, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Identities of six more people killed in Tehran protests verified
Behnam Darvish, Mehrdad Yaghoubi Mehr, Ali Behroozdoust, Hossein Naseri, Masoud Bolourchi, Ahmad Abbasi
JANUARY 17, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 10 men killed during protests identified
Aria Alidoust, Fardin Ghanbari, Mohammad Ebrahimi, Meysam Yaghoubi, Mohammad Honarkhah, Behzad Shafiei, as well as Meysam Khazini, Yadollah Heydari, Seyed Abolfazl Kia, Saeed Golsorkhi
- JANUARY 16, 2026IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Family of 3 killed in Karaj on January 9
Bijan Mostafavi, Zahra Bani-Amerian, Danial Mostafavi
JANUARY 16, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - IHR Report on 20th day of protests: 3,428 protester killed
JANUARY 16, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 52 executions between January 5 to 14
On murder and drug charges
JANUARY 16, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 46 NGOs urge UN Rights Council to hold emergency session
JANUARY 16, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Sirwan Aminpour, political asylum seeker, arrested in Norway and faces deportation to Iran
JANUARY 16, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Soran Feyzizadeh killed under torture in Bijar