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
- JANUARY 15, 2008IranDEATH PENALTY
a minor offender, named Amir, is at imminent risk of execution...
a minor offender, named Amir, is at imminent risk of execution...
- JANUARY 14, 2008IranDEATH PENALTY
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL: IRAN'S STONING A CRUEL AND UNACCEPTABLE PRACTICE
as nine women and two men in Iran wait to be stoned to death, Amnesty International called on the Iranian authorities to abolish execution by stoning and impose an immediate moratorium on this horrific practice, specifically designed to increase the suffe
- JANUARY 14, 2008IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN: TOP CAMPAIGNER HARASSED
Emaddedin Baghi, Iran’s leading anti-death penalty campaigner, is back behind bars in the country’s notorious Evin prison after intense harassment leading to his hospitalisation and concern that he may have suffered a heart attack.
JANUARY 14, 2008IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN. FOUR AHWAZI ACTIVISTS EXECUTED
four Ahwazi activists were executed in secret last week by the Iranian
JANUARY 12, 2008IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN. KURD HANGED ON A STRETCHER
the Kurdish magazine Asu has published the photo of the execution in Iran of a Kurd with Turkish citizenship, the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) reported.
- JANUARY 9, 2008IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN. 2 EXECUTED IN PUBLIC FOR MURDER
Two men, identified only as Mojtaba and Mohammad-Hossein, were
JANUARY 9, 2008IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN. THREE EXECUTED FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING
Iran regime hanged three, in public, for drug trafficking, in Birjand, capital of South Khorasan province bordering Afghanistan, state-run Fars News Agency reported.
- JANUARY 8, 2008IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN. TWO HANGED FOR MURDER
Iran hanged two men convicted of murder in the northern city of Tonkabon
- JANUARY 6, 2008IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN HANGS TWO FOR MURDER, ONE IN PUBLIC
Iran publicly hanged former police official Abolfazl R in the central city of Arak for stabbing a man to death and raping his fiancée in the mountains outside Arak in December 2005, the report said.
- JANUARY 4, 2008IranDEATH PENALTY
TWO YOUTHS TO BE EXECUTED IN IRAN FOR POSSIBLE ‘GAY’ RAPE
unconfirmed reports coming from Iran suggest that two youths are facing a brutal execution in the southern city of Shiraz.
JANUARY 4, 2008IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN EXECUTES MAN FOR DRUG SMUGGLING
Iranian authorities handed over the body of Abdul Qayyum to Taftan police
- JANUARY 3, 2008IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN HANGS CONVICTED CHILD ABUSER
Iran hanged a man who was found guilty of severely torturing and raping a 12 year old boy in the western city of Hamedan, the state news agency IRNA reported.