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
AUGUST 27, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Omid Ali Garavand executed in Khorramabad on August 27
413 esecuzioni in Iran dall'inizio dell'anno
AUGUST 26, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Unidentified man executed in a Tehran prison
AUGUST 25, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Abbas Saroni executed in the last days of August in Gonbad-e Kavus
AUGUST 24, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - On August 24 five men executed in Rajai Shahr Prison
AUGUST 23, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ahmad Karami executed in Neishabur Prison on August 23
AUGUST 23, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 2 men and 1 woman executed in Shiraz on August 22
141st woman executed in Iran since summer of 2013
AUGUST 22, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Abdolfazl Sharifi executed in Qazvin on August 22
AUGUST 22, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Saeed Kamali executed in Dastgerd prison on 22 August
- AUGUST 20, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Moein Atashbar executed in Saravan on August 20
AUGUST 20, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Nader Brahui executed in Iranshahr on August 20
AUGUST 20, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 5 men executed in Zahedan on August 20
One, Omid Alizahi, was a juvenile offender
AUGUST 20, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mehdi Piri executed in Zabol on August 20