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
JANUARY 18, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ghodrat Zibarom executed in Ilam on January 18
JANUARY 18, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Sharaf Khan Akbari + Unk. executed in Karaj on January 18
JANUARY 18, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Nima Vahidi and Omid Karimi executed in Isfahan on January 18
JANUARY 18, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - European Parliament passed a resolution that puts the IRGC on the terrorist list
JANUARY 18, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Akbar Sheikh Panahi executed in Isfahan on January 18, 2023
JANUARY 17, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Kamel Dodkanlou and Farhad Hosseini executed in Salmas on January 17
- JANUARY 15, 2023IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Massoud Tahmasebi executed in Bandar Abbas on January 17
The news published on March 13
JANUARY 14, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Iran has executed British-Iranian national Alireza Akbari
Accused of spying for Great Britain
JANUARY 14, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 74 women killed during nationwide uprising of women
- JANUARY 14, 2023IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Akbar Shah Bakhsh executed in Zahedan on January 14
Already 31 executions in the first 2 weeks of the year
- JANUARY 13, 2023IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Iran executions: the role of the ‘revolutionary courts’ in breaching human rights
JANUARY 12, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Maher Eyluli and Ali Abbaszadeh executed in Shiraz on January 12