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
- MAY 25, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Ladan Molasaeedi, a woman, executed in Qarchak on May 25
Fifth woman to be executed in 2022
- MAY 25, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 8 men executed in Rajai Shahr Prison on May 25
Karim Bagheri, the football player, saved 2 men
- MAY 25, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - R.A. executed on May 25
Location of the execution not specified
- MAY 24, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Wife of Djalali pleads for EU action
Vida Mehrannia
MAY 24, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 4 men executed in Gorgan Prison on 24 May 2022
Mostafa Hamidzadeh, Houshang Bagheri Alimorad (surname unknown) and Nasser Moghadam
- MAY 23, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mohammad Sorkhrou and Abbas Kamali executed in Minab on May 23
- MAY 23, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mossadegh Malahi executed in Minab on May 23
- MAY 23, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Unidentified woman executed on 23 May in Amol prison
135th since September 2013
MAY 23, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Unidentified man executed in Zanjan on May 23
- MAY 22, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Abdolbari Rigi, and Ms Hayati, a woman, executed in Shiraz on May 22
- MAY 22, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mohammad Morad Fazeli executed in Shirvan Prison on May 22
- MAY 22, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Elias Q. executed in Mashhad Prison on May 22
176 executions since the beginning of the year