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
DECEMBER 24, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 12 men executed in various prisons on December 24
Masoud Moradi, Yaghoob Masoumi, Mohammad-Mehdi Adavi, Ebrahim Alizadeh, Mehdi Rajabali Zadeh, Nouraddin Panahi, Mohammad Nourian, Khodakaram Safapour, Nemat Khosravi, Noushad Kazemian, Nazir ... and Ayoub Dehqani
- DECEMBER 24, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 4 men executed in various prisons on December 24
Yarmohammad Saljouqi, Jahanshah Rashidian, Behrouz Sheikhi, … Rastegari
- DECEMBER 24, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mostafa Keifari and Sohrab Majidi executed on December 24
20 executions on December 24
DECEMBER 24, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Eskandar Bakhshoudeh executed in Isfahan on December 24
- DECEMBER 23, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Several people with Swedish-Iranian citizenship have been taken hostage by the Ministry of Intelligence
Report from Maryam Pezeshki, an Iranian artist and a friend of Hands off Cain
DECEMBER 23, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Senior Military Official: 2,000 Arrested on Espionage Charges
DECEMBER 23, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mahdieh Keyhani executed in Hamedan on December 23
DECEMBER 23, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - The execution of Javad Vafaei has been suspended
Political prisoner
- DECEMBER 23, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 9 men executed in various prisons on December 23
Karim Yousefi, Saman Barzegar, Yazdan Jozipour, Safarali Sadeghi, Nejat Yari, Manouchehr Mahaki, Houshang Amiri, Qanbar Farhadi, Shirzad Chamani
- DECEMBER 23, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 6 men executed in various prisons on December 23
Sepehr Moradi, Pejman Saeedi, + 4.
DECEMBER 23, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 400 influential women urge to halt execution of Zahra Tabari
DECEMBER 23, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Yaser Ghoreishi and Mohammadreza Nikkhah executed in Ghaemshahr on December 23