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 19, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Unidentified man executed in Yazd at an unspecified date
AUGUST 19, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mohammad Karami-Zadeh and Esmaiel Jawadi executed in Karaj on August 19
AUGUST 19, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 5 men executed in Yazd on August 19
Ansar Eftekhareddin, Mahmoud Salim, Abdolraouf Shehbakhsh, Abdolrahman Damani + Unk.
AUGUST 19, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 43 Human Rights Organisations Against Crackdown in Evin Prison
AUGUST 18, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Abbas A’laei Aqblagh and Ali Azmoon executed in Tabriz on August 18
AUGUST 17, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 men executed in Shiraz on August 17
Yousef Kazemzadeh, Ali Salimi and Heydar (Haider) Arab
AUGUST 15, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Peymanollah Veysi executed in Sanandaj on August 15
AUGUST 14, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 4 men executed in Karaj on August 14
Behrouz Vafayi, Saeed Niazi (Ali Niazi), Naser Shafiei and unidentified Afghan man
AUGUST 14, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Dissident rapper Toomaj Salehi cleared of charge after death sentence overturned
AUGUST 14, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Farajollah Khashi and Hamed Shehbakhsh executed in Kerman and Bam prisons on August 13 and 14
AUGUST 14, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Reza Zardkouhi and Mousa-alreza Ebrahimi executed in Sabzevar on August 14.
AUGUST 14, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Elias Rezaei executed in Gorgan on August 14