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
JULY 25, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Kamran Sheikheh executed in Urmia on July 25
Kurdish-Sunni political prisoner
JULY 25, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hasan Yousefi Azar executed in Urmia on July 25
JULY 25, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ali Moharramkhani and Hamed Naderi executed in Qazvin on July 25
- JULY 24, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Ramezan Gholamian and Mousa Najar executed in Mashhad on July 24
JULY 24, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ramezan … executed in Mashhad on July 24
JULY 24, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mutiullah Barakzai executed in Qaen on July 24
JULY 23, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 4 men and 3 women executed in Birjand on July 23
Amir Hamzeh Barahooie Mojarrad, Vahid Vahdani + 5 Unk
JULY 23, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Pakhshan Azizi, a political detainee, sentenced to death
JULY 23, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Gulab Shah Nurzehi executed in Bandar Abbas on July 23
- JULY 22, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Hassan Falahi executed in Qom on July 22
- JULY 21, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 4 men executed in Karaj on July 21
Davood Brahui, Saeed Mohammadpour, Mehdi-Ali Akbari + unidentified Afghan
JULY 21, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Daniyal Kazeminejad executed in Kermanshah on July 21
On charges of murdering a member of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps