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
MARCH 13, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Political prisoner Firooz Moosa-Lou sentenced to death
For membership in the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK)
MARCH 13, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hafizollah Rakhshani executed in Zahedan Prison on March 13
MARCH 13, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 4 men executed in Shiraz prison on March 13
Jamshid Fadaei, Hossein Mehrabani, and 2 not identified
MARCH 13, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 2 men executed in Shiraz Central Prison on March 13
One identified as Najaf Anjom
MARCH 12, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Alam Yarahmedzehi executed in Khash prison on March 12
(Also Yar-Ahmadzehi)
MARCH 10, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Sweden renunciates to try two suspected Iranian secret agents
- MARCH 10, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Shahab … executed at Shiraz Central Prison on March 10
Surname not known
MARCH 10, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Nizam Ali Mirzaei executed in Miandoab Prison on March 10
MARCH 10, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Sepideh Qoliyan is gravely ill
The prisoner of conscience needs of urgent medical care
- MARCH 9, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 4 men executed at Shiraz Central Prison on March 9
One identified by his surname, Salarzehi
- MARCH 8, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 17 Women Executed in 2021
2 Hanged by Own Children
MARCH 7, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Human rights defender Narges Mohammadi has to return to prison tomorrow (March 8).
After a brief furlough following heart surgery