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
AUGUST 28, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 4 men executed in Isfahan on August 28
Asad Khosravi, Milad Ali Mohammadi, Emad Motevalian and Rafi Abdolbari
AUGUST 27, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 68 Organisations Declare Support for “No Death Penalty Tuesdays”
- AUGUST 26, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Fahim … executed in Isfahan on August 24
AUGUST 26, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Barkatali Sanjarani executed in Zahedan on August 26
AUGUST 26, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Amirreza Ajam Akrami executed in public in Shahroud on August 26
AUGUST 26, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 4 men executed in Tabriz on August 26
Shapour Hosseini, Irfan Abdolazizi, Mohebollah… e Moshref…
AUGUST 24, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Abbas Rashidi executed in Qazvin on August 24
AUGUST 22, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Vahid Abbasi executed in Nahavand on August 22
AUGUST 22, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mohammad Khaled Jahangiri executed in Tabriz on August 22
AUGUST 21, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mohammad Daghestani executed in Urmia on August 21
AUGUST 20, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - The Continuation of the "No to Execution Tuesdays" Campaign in 18 Prisons Across the Country
Thirty Weeks of Resistance Against Executions
- AUGUST 19, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mehdi Piri and Mazaher Ayouzi (Eyvazi) executed in Zanjan on August 19