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
- NOVEMBER 18, 2021IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Shamsedin Ghaljayi executed in Kerman on November 18
For drug-related offences
- NOVEMBER 17, 2021IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Sobhan Molayi executed in Qazvin on November 17
For murder
- NOVEMBER 17, 2021IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Rahmat Fereydouni executed in Qom on November 17
For murder
NOVEMBER 17, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN -UN Third Committee resolution censures serious rights abuses in Iran
- NOVEMBER 14, 2021IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Marouf Gholipour executed in Shiraz on November 14
For murder
- NOVEMBER 13, 2021IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Four men executed in Zahedan on November 13
At least 100 prisoners executed on drug-related charges in Iran in 2021
- NOVEMBER 10, 2021IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Ahmad Bahrami executed in Rajai Shahr Prison on November 10
For murder
- NOVEMBER 6, 2021IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Couple sentenced to death for adultery
It is unclear whether it is a homosexual couple
NOVEMBER 6, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Yasser Gargij executed in Zahedan Prison on November 6
96, including a woman, executed on drug-related charges in Irani in 2021
NOVEMBER 6, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ahmad Makrandoust executed in Zahedan Prison
For drug-related offences
- NOVEMBER 5, 2021IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Kamran Rezaiefar Sentenced to Death
Charged of “association with The People’s Mujahedin Organization of Iran (MEK)
NOVEMBER 4, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Saeed … executed in Rajai Shahr Prison on November 4
For murder