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 6, 2023IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Hamed Barahouyi executed in Isfahan on November 6
NOVEMBER 6, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - On November 6, Narges Mohammadi, detained at Evin Prison, commenced a hunger strike
Nobel Peace Prize laureate and prominent political prisoner
NOVEMBER 6, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - More than 200 Experts Urge United Nations to Protest Iran’s Chairing of UNHRC Social Forum
NOVEMBER 5, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ghasem Abasteh, a Kurdish-Sunni political prisoner, executed in Ghezel Hesar on November 5
NOVEMBER 4, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Saied Alizehi and Esmaiel Alizehi executed in Zahedan on November 4
Two Baloch brothers
NOVEMBER 3, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Jamshid Sharmahd in Critical Health Condition
A German-Iranian man living in the USA
- NOVEMBER 2, 2023IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Dissident Iranian Composer Receives UN Award for “Courageous” Work
Mehdi Rajabian
NOVEMBER 2, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 4 men executed in Isfahan on November 2
Ebrahim Naroi (Narui, Narooie), Nasir Karimi, and Ali Hadi + Unk
NOVEMBER 2, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 2 women and a man sentenced to death for adultery
Leila Khalghi Sakachayi, Mitra … and Abolfazl Barat Vakili
NOVEMBER 2, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hossein Golmohammadi executed in Arak on November 2
- NOVEMBER 1, 2023IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN 6 men executed in Karaj on November 1
Ehsan Haddad, Abbas Anarki, Kuchak Behrouz, Mohsen Abbasi, Yadalollah Farrokhi and Sadegh Tajik.
NOVEMBER 1, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Sadegh Tajik and Yadollah Farrokhi executed in Karaj on November 1