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
- DECEMBER 10, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 4 Baloch prisoners executed on December 10
Ehsan Bakhtiari, Mostafa Qavi Panjeh, Muslim … and Abdul Wase Brahui
- DECEMBER 10, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Iran supreme leader’s niece sentenced to 3 years for supporting protests
Farideh Moradkhani
DECEMBER 9, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Saman Yasin, the rapper, sentenced to death.
DECEMBER 9, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN- Iran Human Rights Monitor Annual Report 2022
DECEMBER 8, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hamid Ghara-Hasanlu, a doctor, sentenced to death in protests
DECEMBER 8, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Protester Mohsen Shekari executed this morning
DECEMBER 8, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Shayan Hassanpour (Hassanzadeh) executed in Maku on December 8
DECEMBER 7, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - At least 458 people killed in the ongoing nationwide protests
Including 63 children and 29 women
DECEMBER 7, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Unidentified man executed in Qom on December 7
586 executions since the beginning of 2022
- DECEMBER 7, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Baratali Sheikhalizadeh executed in Karaj on December 7
DECEMBER 5, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Nasser Omarzahi and Alireza Naroouie executed in Zahedan on December 5
- DECEMBER 5, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Death sentences for protesters