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
APRIL 16, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Suspicious Death in Custody of Protester Abbas Yavari
APRIL 16, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Manouchehr Vafaei and Navid Naghdi at Imminent Risk of Execution
APRIL 16, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 2 people arrested for “contact with foreign media”
APRIL 16, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Woman arrested for contacts with foreign media
Accused of espionage
APRIL 16, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 19-year-old protester Saghar Gholami held in legal limbo
APRIL 16, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 Protesters Sentenced to Death
Majid Nasiri, Shahab Dadkhah + 1
APRIL 15, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ali Zohrabi executed in Kashan on April 15
- APRIL 15, 2026IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - At Least 45 people arrested for ‘contacts with foreign media’.
- APRIL 15, 2026IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Woman Arrested for sending videos to foreign media
- APRIL 15, 2026IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 6 people arrested for sending videos top foreign media
Including 2 women
APRIL 15, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Report on the Arrest of Mohammad-Parsa Golchin
Olympiad Gold Medal–Winning Literature Student
- APRIL 14, 2026IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Ehsan Hosseinipour Faces death sentence
A protester