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
- OCTOBER 6, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - On the killing of 16 year old Nima Shafiqdoost
OCTOBER 6, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - On the killing of 17-year-old protester Nika Shakarami
OCTOBER 5, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mariano Giustino posted on Twitter the video of an extrajudicial execution
Correspondent from Turkey of Radio Radicale and a good friend of Hands Off Cain
OCTOBER 5, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Names and details of 182 martyrs of freedom movement
OCTOBER 3, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 2 prisoners executed in Shiraz prison on October 3
Identities not confirmed
- OCTOBER 2, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Iran Protests: Death Toll Rises to 133
40 Killed in Zahedan’s “Bloody Friday”
OCTOBER 2, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 5 men executed in Mashhad on October 2
Asif Shibak, Saeed Shibak, Ramadan Mazar Zahi and Awad Bilrani
- OCTOBER 2, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 4 prisoners executed in Shiraz prison on October 2
Hashim Mahmoodzadeh, Yusuf Ali Chalani, Abbas Fatahalian, Haider Ramezani
SEPTEMBER 29, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Qasem Shah Bakhsh executed in Zahedan on September 29
- SEPTEMBER 28, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Kiomars Parvaneh and Hasan Hojjati executed in Qazvin on September 28
- SEPTEMBER 28, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Morteza Brahui executed in Zahedan on September 28
SEPTEMBER 26, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - At least 76 protesters killed by security forces
On the 11th day of unrest after the killing of the young Masha Amini