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
- MARCH 16, 2005IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN. MAN CONVICTED OF KILLING CHILDREN WHIPPED THEN EXECUTED IN PUBLIC
Mohammed Bijeh, a man convicted of raping and murdering 16 boys was lashed 100 times, and then hanged in front of a large, angry Iranian crowd who pelted him with stones and scuffled with police.
- MARCH 14, 2005IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN. TWO MEN HANGED PUBLICLY FOR RAPE AND ARMED ROBBERY
two Iranians were hanged in public in Bandar-Abbas in southern Iran after they were found guilty of rape and armed robbery.
- MARCH 14, 2005IranDEATH PENALTY
Bahram Oroumand and Saed Hussien, two youths, were sentenced to death
Bahram Oroumand and Saed Hussien, two youths, were sentenced to death
- MARCH 13, 2005IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN. MAN HANGED FOR BANK RAID MURDERS
Ali Sookhtezadeh was hanged in public in Ahvaz, south-western Iran, for murdering five people during a bank robbery.
- MARCH 10, 2005IranDEATH PENALTY
two men convicted of robbery were publicly given 74 lashes each
two men convicted of robbery were publicly given 74 lashes each
- MARCH 10, 2005IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN. CONVICTED MURDERER HANGED, ROBBERS LASHED
Asghar Mohammadzadeh, an Iranian man convicted of murdering two brothers, was hanged before dawn in a prison in the north-eastern city of Mashhad.
- MARCH 10, 2005IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN. JUDICIARY ENDS PROCEEDINGS AGAINST AGHAJARI
Iran's judiciary has ended proceedings against the country's top academic dissident, a man who faced the death penalty for telling Iranians not to follow their ruling clerics ''like monkeys'', his lawyer said.
- MARCH 7, 2005IranDEATH PENALTY
the Judiciary in the city of Karaj, Iran, issued death sentences for two young men
the Judiciary in the city of Karaj, Iran, issued death sentences for two young men
- FEBRUARY 28, 2005IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN. US STATE ANNUAL REPORT ON HUMAN RIGHTS IN 2004 DENOUNCES SUMMARY EXECUTIONS
the United States on Monday kept up its feud with Syria and Iran, blasting their regimes as represseive and their human rights records as fraught with abuses ranging from arbitrary arrest to torture.
- FEBRUARY 28, 2005IranDEATH PENALTY
according to the ”Iranian Human Rights Activist Groups in EU and North America...
according to the ”Iranian Human Rights Activist Groups in EU and North America...
- FEBRUARY 27, 2005IranDEATH PENALTY
a middle-aged man and his teenage son were facing imminent execution
a middle-aged man and his teenage son were facing imminent execution
- FEBRUARY 21, 2005IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN. AT LEAST 23 EXECUTIONS AND 42 DEATH SENTENCES SO FAR THIS YEAR
at least 23 people have been hanged in Iran in 2005 and 42 people have been sentenced to death, said the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), adding that at least 30 minors and 15 women were amongst the prisoners on death row in Iranian prisons.