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 25, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Two men Executed in Rasht on November 25
Political prisoner Geda Ali Saber Motlagh and Mohsen Sedaghat
NOVEMBER 25, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Unidentified woman executed in Rasht on November 25
- NOVEMBER 24, 2023IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mother of executed protester arrested for wailing at his funeral
Afsaneh Zohrevand, mother of Milad Zohrevand
NOVEMBER 24, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Unidentified young man executed in Sabzevar on 24 November
Possibly a minor at the time of the crime
NOVEMBER 23, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Milad Zohrevand secretly executed in Hamadan on November 23
A political prisoner
NOVEMBER 23, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Rasoul Gorgij and Shahmorad Davoudi executed in Mashhad on November 23
NOVEMBER 22, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mohammad Andishkouh and Moslem Jamshidi executed in Karaj on November 22
NOVEMBER 22, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ebrahim Zamharir executed in Tabriz on November 22
NOVEMBER 22, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 2 men executed in Karaj on November 22
Loghman Omrani + Unk
NOVEMBER 22, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Reza … executed in Karaj on November 22
NOVEMBER 22, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Gholam Rasoul Heydari executed on November 22 in Shiraz
NOVEMBER 20, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Siamand Bukani (Ostwar) executed in Ardabil on November 20