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
SEPTEMBER 20, 2018IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN: JUVENILE OFFENDER SENTENCED TO DEATH
According to Javanonline website, the Criminal Court of Tehran has issued a verdict for Mehrdad for the third time and this time he is sentenced to death, Iranian Global Network reported on September 18, 2018.
SEPTEMBER 17, 2018IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN: MAN HANGED AT SARAVAN PRISON
According to a close source, on September 12, 2018 a prisoner who was sentenced to death on murder charges was executed at Saravan Prison.
- SEPTEMBER 13, 2018IranDEATH PENALTY
IRANIAN AUTHORITIES EXECUTED THREE BALOCH PRISONERS
According to the Baloch Activists Campaign, three political prisoners detained in Zahedan prison were transferred to solitary confinement on September 1st, 2018 and executed on 3rd September.
SEPTEMBER 10, 2018IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN: PRISONER HANGED TO DEATH WITHOUT WARNING
Kamal Ahmadnejad, a prisoner held on death row in Miandoab Prison in northwestern Iran, was precipitously executed in the early morning.
SEPTEMBER 8, 2018IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN: THREE KURDISH POLITICAL PRISONER EXECUTED
Three Iranian Kurdish political prisoner, Ramin Hossein Panahi, Loghman Moradi and Zanyar Moradi, were executed this morning at Rajai Shahr prison in Karaj.
SEPTEMBER 5, 2018IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN: AT LEAST EIGHT PRISONERS HANGED IN RAJAI SHAHR PRISON
A group of eight prisoners were hanged in Rajai Shahr Prison.
SEPTEMBER 2, 2018IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN: JUVENILE OFFENDER BEING EXECUTED IN 2018
IHR can confirm information about the execution of Abolfazl Naderi, a juvenile offender who was arrested at the age of 16 for an alleged murder.
- AUGUST 29, 2018IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN HANGS TWO INMATES IN RAJAEI SHAHR PRISON OF KARAJ
Two prisoners were executed in Rajaei Shahr Prison of Karaj, west of Tehran.
- AUGUST 26, 2018IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN: MAN HANGED IN ARDABIL
AUGUST 8, 2018IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN: THREE PRISONERS HANGED IN MINAB
According to a report by Azad News Agency (ANA), on the morning three prisoners were executed at Minab Prison.
- JULY 27, 2018IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN: TWO PRISONERS WERE HANGED AT URMIA CENTRAL PRISON
Two prisoners were hanged on drug related charges at Urmia Central prison
- JULY 22, 2018IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN: TWO MEN PUBLICLY HANGED IN MASHHAD
Two prisoners convicted of murder were publicly hanged in Mashhad, capital of the northeastern Iranian province of Razavi Khorasan, the state-run ISNA news agency reported.