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
NOVEMBER 28, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mohammad Amin Omar Zehi and Noor Mohammad Mazar Zehi executed in Zahedan on November 28
NOVEMBER 28, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Abdullah Salah Zahi executed in Iranshahr on November 28
NOVEMBER 28, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Death Sentence For Anyone Contacting Foreign Media
- NOVEMBER 27, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Changiz Gergij executed in Zabol on November 27
- NOVEMBER 27, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mohammad Omar Khameh executed in Mashhad on November 27
NOVEMBER 27, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ziber Brahui executed in Zahedan on November 27
NOVEMBER 27, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Muhammad Umar Khame executed in Mashhad
NOVEMBER 27, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 5 men executed in Shiraz on November 27
Hojat Nemati, Abbas Sabz, Omar Zardkohi, Shahram Ahmadzadeh + unknown
- NOVEMBER 26, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Hossein Kheirollahi and Saheb Rasouli executed in Isfahan on November 26
NOVEMBER 26, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mohammad Isa Zahi executed in Zahedan on November 26
NOVEMBER 24, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Special meeting of the Human Rights Council on the deteriorating of human rights in Iran
- NOVEMBER 23, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Unidentified man executed in Isfahan on November 23