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
JULY 30, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mohammad Arbab executed in Zabol on July 30
JULY 27, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Lawyer Mohammad Seifzadeh sentenced for letter to the UN Secretary-General
JULY 27, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Unk executed in Bandar Abbas on uncertain date
JULY 26, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Masoud Shahbakhsh executed in Zahedan on July 26
JULY 26, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Iran court quashes Mohammad Ghobadlou death sentence
Convicted of killing a policeman during nationwide protests last year
JULY 22, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Unnamed man executed in Qom on uncertain date
Likely on July 22
- JULY 20, 2023IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN: POLITICAL PRISONER MOHAMMAD JAVAD VAFA’I THANI SENTENCED TO DEATH
A judge at Vakil Abad Prison in Mashhad, capital of the northeastern Razavi Khorasan Province, on July 19, 2023 sentenced to death Mohammad Javad Vafa’i Thani.
JULY 20, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Abbas Deris at Grave Risk of Execution
One of the participants in the November 2019 protests over the price of gasoline
JULY 19, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Unidentified man executed in Dezful
Date of execution not specified
JULY 19, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - The Czech Republic will extradite a Georgian national over a plot to kill Iranian Dissident Masih Alinejad
JULY 19, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mohammad-Javad Vafaie Sani sentenced to death
Political prisoner
JULY 18, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ghasem Seyed Hosseini executed in Urmia on July 18