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
- MAY 20, 2006IranDEATH PENALTY
it was reported that at the beginning of January 2006 Iran’s Supreme Court rejected...
it was reported that at the beginning of January 2006 Iran’s Supreme Court rejected...
- MAY 13, 2006IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN. FIRST KNOWN EXECUTION OF A CHILD OFFENDER IN 2006
Majid Segound, 17-year old, and an unnamed 20-year old male were executed by hanging in Khorramabad, the capital of Iran’s Lorestan province.
- MAY 13, 2006IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN. RIGHTS GROUP URGES EU TO PRESSURE IRAN TO STOP EXECUTION
a Tehran-based group, Human Rights Activists in Iran, called on the European Union to pressure Iran to suspend the imminent execution of a long-time political prisoner.
- MAY 9, 2006IranDEATH PENALTY
UNITED KINGDOM. 'I'LL DIE IF YOU SEND ME HOME TO IRAN'
Fatema Torabi, a teacher who fears being stoned to death in Iran after being accused of adultery there appealed to Scottish judges to save her.
- MAY 7, 2006IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN. MAN HANGED FOR MURDER
an Iranian man convicted of murder was hanged in a prison in the southwestern city of Ahvaz.
- MAY 5, 2006IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN. EU PRESIDENCY EXPRESSES SERIOUS CONCERN ABOUT IRAN’S HUMAN RIGHTS
in a statement from Austria's government, which holds the rotating EU presidency, the 25-nation bloc said it was particularly worried about 10 executions carried out at Iran's Evin prison on April 19 and the indictment of human rights defender Abdolfattah
- MAY 3, 2006IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN. MAN’S DEATH SENTENCE FOR MURDER APPROVED
it was reported that the death sentence for a “young man”, Qarib Rahman, has been approved by the Iranian mullahs' judiciary putting him on the verge of execution.
- MAY 3, 2006IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN. JUVENILE SENTENCED TO DEATH
Iran’s Etemad state daily reported that a 17-year-old boy from the central city of Isfahan was sentenced to death.
- MAY 2, 2006IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN. WOMAN HANGED IN PUBLIC
Farzaneh Sadeqi, female, was hanged in public for murder in Iran’s western province of Lorestan.
- APRIL 26, 2006IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN. 23-YEAR-OLD MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH IN TEHRAN
a 23 year old man identified only by his first name, Abolqasem, was sentenced to death in Tehran
- APRIL 23, 2006IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN. MAN HANGED FOR MURDER, 'THUG' FLOGGED
an Iranian man convicted of murder was executed in a prison in Shiraz and a "thug" flogged near Tehran.
- APRIL 21, 2006IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN. IRANIAN RESISTANCE CONDEMNS HIGH NUMBER OF EXECUTIONS IN IRAN
NCRI's Foreign Affairs Committee Chair Mohammad Mohaddessin, in a letter to the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour, drew attention to the ruthless wave of executions that have risen dramatically since Mahmoud Ahmadinejad becam