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
FEBRUARY 6, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Benjamin Briere, a French national held in Iran, on hunger strike
FEBRUARY 5, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ebrahim Hojjat Qoli executed in Zanjan on February 5
FEBRUARY 4, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Names and details of 632 martyrs of freedom movement
- FEBRUARY 3, 2023IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Islamic Republic Systematically Targeted Protester Eyes
FEBRUARY 3, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Jafar Panahi released on bail
FEBRUARY 2, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Film director Jafar Panahi on a hunger strike in Evin Prison
FEBRUARY 2, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Shocking Photos Of Hunger-Striking Political Prisoner Farhad Meysami
- FEBRUARY 1, 2023IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Ahmad Zali Tabar and Omid Ali Kohi executed in Karaj last week
- FEBRUARY 1, 2023IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Unnamed man executed on February 1 in Gohardasht
- FEBRUARY 1, 2023IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mehdi Rasi Azar executed in Gohardasht on February 1
JANUARY 31, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ali Allahverdi and Farhang Zakayi executed in Shiraz on January 31
JANUARY 31, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Already 18 Kurds executed since the beginning of the year