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
MAY 2, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 men executed in Tabriz on May 2
Mehdi Habibi, Saeed Ranjdoust, and Saber Aminabadi
MAY 2, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mohammad Rasoul Khoshkar executed in Tabriz on May 2
Three other executions were already known
MAY 1, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Anwar Khezri Executed in Karaj on May 1
A Kurdish religious prisoner
MAY 1, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ali Ashraf Khani executed in Kermanshah on May 1
- MAY 1, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 4 more men executed in Karaj on May 1
arzad Geravand, Majid Barati, Reza Shir-Zahi and Majid Hajbari
- MAY 1, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Ahmad Heyrati executed in Shiraz on May 1
MAY 1, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Nasir Hariri executed in Qazvin on May 1
MAY 1, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Khosro Babavaldini executed in Kermanshah on May 1
MAY 1, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hadi Laveh, a Kurdish singer, arrested on May 1
For criticizing authorities
- APRIL 30, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Farzad Geravand and Reza Barati executed in Karaj on April 30
- APRIL 30, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 1 woman and 3 men executed in Birjand on April 30
Unidentified woman + Mehdi Eshterak, Mohammad Shehbakhsh, Mahmoud Gorgij
APRIL 30, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Faramarz Moradi executed in Ardabil on April 30