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, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 men executed in Karaj (Central) on November 25
Ashkan Moradi, Jalal Haj Babay and Davoud Heidari
- NOVEMBER 24, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Hossein Souri and Moslem Jafari executed in Karaj (Ghezel Hesar) on November 24
NOVEMBER 24, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mehran Hassan Zadeh and Hamid Abdollah Zadeh Sentenced to Death
Political Prisoners
NOVEMBER 24, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Fariba Maleki Shiravand hanged in Khorramabad on November 24
Female prisoner
NOVEMBER 24, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Two unidentified Afghan nationals executed in Ghezel Hesar on November 24
NOVEMBER 23, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Nader Ghanizadeh executed in Jiroft on November 23
780 executions in Iran in 2024
NOVEMBER 23, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Nasser Ghabel Salmani executed in Jiroft on November 23
NOVEMBER 23, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Roshanak Molaei Flogged in Qarchak for Violating Hijab Laws
NOVEMBER 21, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Statement condemning the death sentences handed down in Iran
Highlighting the cases of political activists Varisheh Moradi and Pakhshan Azizi
NOVEMBER 21, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Meysam Nouri executed in Hamedan on November 21
NOVEMBER 21, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Jailed rapper Toomaj Salehi urges fellow activist Hossein Ronaghi to end hunger strike
NOVEMBER 21, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 men executed in Hamedan on November 21
Arslan Habibi, Jabbar Keyfari, and Amir-Hossein Rostami, who was a minor