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
- MAY 15, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mehrab Salehi executed in Yazd on May 15
Probably a juvenile at the time of the alleged crime
- MAY 14, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Farshad Gamshadzehi, Esmail Jahantigh and Mansour Barahouyi executed in Zahedan on May 14
Farshad Gamshadzehi may have been a juvenile offender
MAY 14, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mohammad Bameri executed in Iranshahr on May 14
The man was unable to pay the €23.000 diya (reparation)
MAY 12, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hossein Fartash executed in Isfahan on May 12
143 executions in 2022
MAY 11, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mostafa Kh. executed in Mashhad on May 11
- MAY 10, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Unnamed man executed in Sabzevar Prison on May 10
138 executions in 2022
- MAY 10, 2022BelgiumDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Belgian Court of Appeals’ Sentence on Bomb Plot at Iranian Resistance Rally in Paris
MAY 9, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Europe must make the serious consequences of executing Ahmadreza Djalali clear
To Islamic Republic officials
MAY 8, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Four men executed in Shiraz on May 8
Abbas Pajmordeh, Ali Pajmordeh, Mohammad Gholamhosseini and Ali Hossein Pahan
- MAY 7, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 3 Men and a Woman Executed in Zahedan on May 7
The number of women executed in Iran since the summer of 2013 reaches 132
MAY 7, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Yousef Naderi and Abolfazl Hassan Moradi Executed in Qom on May 7
- MAY 4, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Sweden. Ahmadreza Djalali at Imminent Risk of Execution
The international community should react in time