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 23, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Seyyed Sarrajul Haq Siddiqui executed on July 23 in Shiraz prison
JULY 23, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ali Sabahi and Mohammad Hossein Hasanipour executed in Shiraz on July 23
- JULY 22, 2022BelgiumDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Belgium. Brussels Court suspended the transfer of Assadollah Assadi
- JULY 21, 2022BelgiumDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Belgium. Belgium Ratifies Much-Criticized Prisoner Swap Treaty With Iran
JULY 21, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Execution of 2 men and 1 woman in Yazd prison
137 women executed in Iran since 2013
JULY 21, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Four inmates executed in Borujerd, Birjand, and Yazd Prisons
On July 11 and 21
- JULY 20, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Unidentified man executed in Qom on July 20
JULY 20, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Dariush Khazai and Mahmood Sadeghian executed in Dastgerd Prison on July 20
- JULY 20, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Hamed Sarband executed in in Birjand on July 20
JULY 19, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Filmmaker Jafar Panahi to serve 6 years for defending free speech
- JULY 15, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - UNITED NATIONS - Sweden. Javaid Rehman lauded the conviction in Sweden against Hamid Noury
JULY 14, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Sweden. The Stockholm District Court sentenced Hamid Noury to life
For “serious crimes against international law” and "murder"