Iran
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- 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
- APRIL 21, 1999IranDEATH PENALTY
On April 21, Hojatoleslam Kadivar, a supporter of Ayatollah...
On April 21, Hojatoleslam Kadivar, a supporter of Ayatollah Montazeri, was sentenced to 18 months imprisonment
- APRIL 17, 1999IranDEATH PENALTY
On April 17, Nasser Saffarian, film critic of the newspaper...
On April 17, Nasser Saffarian, film critic of the newspaper Salam, was arrested for signing a letter protesting against the killing of writers and intellectuals
- APRIL 14, 1999IranDEATH PENALTY
On April 14, Ahmad Asqarpour was stoned to death in...
On April 14, Ahmad Asqarpour was stoned to death in public in northern Iran, in Babol, a town bordering the Caspian Sea
- APRIL 10, 1999IranDEATH PENALTY
On April 10, a German citizen Helmut Hofer, a 57-year-old...
On April 10, a German citizen Helmut Hofer, a 57-year-old businessman, was released on bail from an Iranian prison
- MARCH 16, 1999IranDEATH PENALTY
On March 16, 4 members of the Baha'i community's Higher...
On March 16, 4 members of the Baha'i community's Higher Education Institute, Habbibollah Ferdosian, Ziaullah Mirzapanah, Sina Hakiman and Farzad Khajeh, were sentenced to various prison terms
- MARCH 15, 1999IranDEATH PENALTY
On March 15, Mojahed, the paper of the Mojahedin of...
On March 15, Mojahed, the paper of the Mojahedin of the Iranian People reported that in the city of Khorramabad, in the Lorestan region, 18 youths previously arrested for disturbances in Ahvas, capital of the Khozestan region, were executed
- MARCH 13, 1999IranDEATH PENALTY
On March 13, according to the newspaper Khordad of...
On March 13, according to the newspaper Khordad of March 16, Ali Asghar Ghazanfarnejad Jelodar was sentenced to death and executed at Evin prison without a trial, on a charge of "war against the Islamic Republic," as he was a sympathizer of the Mojahedin
- MARCH 1, 1999IranDEATH PENALTY
In March, President Mohammad Khatami's much-heralded...
In March, President Mohammad Khatami's much-heralded visit to France was unexpectedly canceled by the Iranian Government
- FEBRUARY 16, 1999IranDEATH PENALTY
On February 16, Mahmoud Alizadeh Tabatabai, Khatami's...
On February 16, Mahmoud Alizadeh Tabatabai, Khatami's representative on drug issues, said "executing drug smugglers is not a suitable way to fight drugs and our ten-year experience shows that this has not been a solution
- JANUARY 19, 1999IranDEATH PENALTY
On January 19, according to an article in the weekly...
On January 19, according to an article in the weekly magazine Iran, Amrollah (Hamid) Raiisi was hanged in the main square of Nahavand for drug trafficking, but Raiisi also seems to have been a sympathizer of the Iranian Mojahedin of the Iranian People
- JANUARY 1, 1999IranDEATH PENALTY
The 1999 figures for capital sentences and executions...
The 1999 figures for capital sentences and executions in Iran are unrealistic and vague
- JANUARY 1, 1999IranDEATH PENALTY
Public executions and executions of minors are carried...
Public executions and executions of minors are carried out in Iran