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
JULY 27, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Soheila Abedi executed in Sanandaj on July 27
139th woman since 2013
JULY 27, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Faranak Beheshti was executed in Urmia on July 27
138th woman since 2013
JULY 26, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Gholam Nourzehi and Jomeh Barakzehi executed in Isfahan on July 26
JULY 26, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ahmad Ghadimi and Shahram Yadegar executed in Hamedan on July 26
- JULY 25, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mohammad Izadi executed in Isfahan on July 25
JULY 25, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 unidentified men executed in Mashhad on July 25
- JULY 25, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 3 unidentified men executed in Torbat-e-Jam prison on July 25
JULY 23, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Iman Sabzikar publicly executed in Shiraz on of July 23
JULY 23, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Esmail Narouyi and Khaled Paraki executed in Zahedan on July 23
JULY 23, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Shokat Shehbakhsh executed in Zahedan on July 23
JULY 23, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 4 men executed in Zabol on July 23
Farhad Kouhkan, Davoud Amirzadeh, Hamid Jahangard and Habib Totazehi
JULY 23, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 4 executions in Qom Central Prison also known as Langroud Prison
3 on 23 July, one on 9 July