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 16, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Saeed Gharibi, a political prisoner, set himself on fire on November 16, 2024
NOVEMBER 16, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mehdi Gilani executed in Lakan on November 16
NOVEMBER 16, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mehdi Gilani and Mohammad Hossein Naderi executed in Rasht on November 16
NOVEMBER 15, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Amanj Azizi executed in Urmia on November 15
755 executions in Iran in 2024
NOVEMBER 14, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Reza Kardel executed in Amol on November 14
- NOVEMBER 13, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Ahmad Alizadeh executed in Karaj (Ghezel-Hesar) on November 13
He was previously hanged for 28 seconds before being resuscitated
- NOVEMBER 13, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 6 men sentenced to death
In the “Ekbatan Case”
- NOVEMBER 13, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 1 woman, 6 men executed in Karaj (Ghezel-Hesar) on November 13
Unk woman + Khaled Tajik, Ahmad Alizadeh, Saman Bozorgi, Hamzeh Tarkashvand, Jafar Rastgar, Mohsen Moradi
- NOVEMBER 13, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Salar Shamipour Zardkhaneh and Ali Abedini executed in Jiroft (or Tabriz) on November 13
- NOVEMBER 13, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Omid Sheikh Kanlu Milan executed in Urmia (or Salmas) on November 13
- NOVEMBER 13, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Ghiam Safizadeh executed in Jiroft on November 13
- NOVEMBER 13, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Activist Kianoosh Sanjari took his own life
In Tehran on November 13