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 25, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Alireza Janipour executed in Hamadan on October 25
OCTOBER 25, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Iran Protests: At least 234 Including 29 Children Killed
Families and Doctors Pressured to Confirm False Scenarios
OCTOBER 25, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hossein Valizadeh executed in Hamadan on October 25
OCTOBER 24, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 500 executed in Iran since the beginning of the year
No other country in the world carries out as many executions
- OCTOBER 24, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mohammad Esfandiari executed in Barazjan on October 24
OCTOBER 23, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Sajjad Zainivandnejad executed in Borujerd on October 23
OCTOBER 22, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Three Baloch prisoners executed on 22 October
Mohammad Zarakzahi in Zabol, and Juma Gumshadzahi and Habil Shahnawazi in Zahedan
- OCTOBER 22, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Yousef Faraji executed in Aligudarz on October 22
501 executions since the beginning of 2022
OCTOBER 19, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mansour Ghorbani-Bendarati executed in Isfahan on October 19
- OCTOBER 19, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 3 men executed in Sari on October 19
OCTOBER 16, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Evin Prison: IHR Calls for Urgent UN Mechanism to Prevent Further Atrocities
OCTOBER 16, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hossein Karimabadi executed in Hamedan on October 16