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
JULY 22, 2015IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN: UP TO 12 PRISONERS EXECUTED
According to official reports, 12 prisoners were hanged to death in Iran.
JULY 16, 2015IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN: LIVES OF TWO PRISONERS SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDER SPARED BY PLAINTIFFS
According to official reports by state run media Hamshahri Online, two prisoners who were sentenced to
JULY 15, 2015IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN: PRISONER HANGED IN PUBLIC DURING RAMADAN
Official sources in Iran have reported on the public execution of a prisoner in Mahvelat County. The
JULY 5, 2015IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN: TWO WOMEN SENTENCED TO DEATH PARDONED BY PLAINTIFFS
During a recent meeting of “peace and reconciliation” between prisoners in Isfahan’s central prison and a
- JULY 2, 2015IranDEATH PENALTY
EUROPEAN STATES CONTINUE TO FUND DRUG HANGINGS AS IRAN EXECUTIONS SPIKE
New analysis released today by NGO Iran Human Rights shows that over two thirds of the 570 people so far executed in Iran this year were sentenced to death on drugs charges.
JUNE 29, 2015IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN: DEATH SENTENCES ISSUED FOR 10 INDIVIDUALS IN SOUTHEASTERN PRISON
10 prisoners that have been detained in Zahedan Central Prison (southeastern Iran) for three years in a
JUNE 29, 2015IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN: PRISONER OF CONSCIENCE MOHAMMAD ALI TAHERI SENTENCED TO DEATH
The Iranian regime has sentenced prisoner of conscience Mohammad Ali Taheri to execution. He is the
JUNE 20, 2015IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN: WRITER SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR APOSTASY
A 23-year-old former nuclear physics student, Hesameddin Farzizadeh, was sentenced to death for
JUNE 16, 2015IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN: 25 PRISONERS WERE HANGED IN GOHARDASHT PRISON, KARAJ, WEST OF TEHRAN
According to reports from inside Iran, 25 prisoners were collectively executed in Gohardash (Rajai Shahr)
- JUNE 14, 2015IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN: VICTIM’S FAMILY FORGIVES YOUNG KILLER AT GALLOWS
the execution of a 22-year-old man was halted at the very last minute in Arak, the capital of Markazi
JUNE 14, 2015IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN: KURDISH POLITICAL PRISONER EXECUTED IN MIANDOAB
A well-known Kurdish political prisoner was executed in Miandoab’s Prison, reported the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI).
- JUNE 13, 2015IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN: TWO PRISONERS HANGED IN RASHT
according to official reports from the Department of Justice in Gilan, two prisoners were