Iran
2026
- 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, 2018IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN: A FEMALE JUVENILE OFFENDER AND FOUR MEN HANGED
Zeynab Sekanvand, a juvenile offender who was 17 years old when arrested for the murder of her husband, was executed on October 2, 2018 morning at Urmia prison along with four other prisoners.
OCTOBER 1, 2018IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN: THREE SENTENCED TO DEATH IN DRIVE AGAINST ECONOMIC CRIMES
Special courts set up in a drive against financial crime have sentenced three people to death in Iran, state television reported on September 30, 2018
OCTOBER 1, 2018IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN: POLITICAL PRISONER SENTENCED TO DEATH
The Supreme Court in Iran accepted the death sentence of Arsalan Khodkam, a political prisoner, Iran Human Rights reported on September 26, 2018.
SEPTEMBER 27, 2018IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN: MAN HANGED AT TONEKABON'S PRISON
According to a report by HRANA, on the morning of September 25, 2018 one prisoner was executed at Nashtarud-Tonekabon Prison.
SEPTEMBER 26, 2018IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN: PRISONER EXECUTED ON DRUG CHARGES DESPITE CASE OBSCURITY
Iranian authorities executed a man for drug related charges on September 15, 2018.
SEPTEMBER 25, 2018IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR ALLEGED PDKI CONNECTIONS
Iranian judiciary authorities on September 23, 2018 issued the death penalty to a Kurdish inmate over political activities and alleged membership in a Kurdish party.
SEPTEMBER 24, 2018IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN: NINE PRISONERS HANGED AT SHIRAZ PRISON
According to the state-run news agency, Mizan, on the morning of September 22, 2018 nine prisoners were executed at Adel Abad Prison in Shiraz.
SEPTEMBER 20, 2018IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN: JUVENILE OFFENDER SENTENCED TO DEATH
According to Javanonline website, the Criminal Court of Tehran has issued a verdict for Mehrdad for the third time and this time he is sentenced to death, Iranian Global Network reported on September 18, 2018.
SEPTEMBER 17, 2018IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN: MAN HANGED AT SARAVAN PRISON
According to a close source, on September 12, 2018 a prisoner who was sentenced to death on murder charges was executed at Saravan Prison.
- SEPTEMBER 13, 2018IranDEATH PENALTY
IRANIAN AUTHORITIES EXECUTED THREE BALOCH PRISONERS
According to the Baloch Activists Campaign, three political prisoners detained in Zahedan prison were transferred to solitary confinement on September 1st, 2018 and executed on 3rd September.
SEPTEMBER 10, 2018IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN: PRISONER HANGED TO DEATH WITHOUT WARNING
Kamal Ahmadnejad, a prisoner held on death row in Miandoab Prison in northwestern Iran, was precipitously executed in the early morning.
SEPTEMBER 8, 2018IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN: THREE KURDISH POLITICAL PRISONER EXECUTED
Three Iranian Kurdish political prisoner, Ramin Hossein Panahi, Loghman Moradi and Zanyar Moradi, were executed this morning at Rajai Shahr prison in Karaj.