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
MARCH 22, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Happy Nowruz 1402 to the political prisoners and detainees of nationwide protests
Best wishes for the new (islamic) year
- MARCH 20, 2023IranDEATH PENALTY
THE DEATH PENALTY FOR DRUG OFFENCES: GLOBAL OVERVIEW 2022 (HARM REDUCTION INTERNATIONAL)
As of December 2022, Harm Reduction International (HRI) recorded at least 285 executions for drug offences globally during the year, a 118% increase from 2021, and an 850% increase from 2020.
MARCH 18, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 2 unidentified men sentenced to death in terrorist attack
On March 18
MARCH 17, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mohiyedin Ebrahimi executed in Urmia on March 17
Kurdish political prisoner
MARCH 17, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 5 men and 1 woman executed in Urmia on March 17
Forohar (or Ashir) Abbasnejad, Mohammad Ayoubian, Jahanbakhsh Radloui, Hassan Omari, Nasim Niazi, and Yasin Rashidi
MARCH 17, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Not identified man executed in Khorramabad on March 17
MARCH 13, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Over 82,000 people have been granted amnesty
Including nearly 23,000 protesters
MARCH 12, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Over 100 individuals arrested for school gas attacks
MARCH 12, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Supreme court has upheld the death sentence of Habib Farajollah Chaab
MARCH 12, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 2 men executed in Shiraz on March 12
Tohid Ramezani, Nabi Langrani
MARCH 12, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ali Mekhan Seyfi executed in Kermanshah on March 12
158 executions since the beginning of the year
MARCH 12, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Salman Momeni executed in Arak on March 12