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
JUNE 19, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Nobel Laureate Narges Mohammadi Sentenced to Additional Year in Prison
JUNE 17, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Iranians in Stockholm Rally Against Release of War Criminal Hamid Nouri
- JUNE 16, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Khamenei pardons, reduces sentences of 2,654 inmates
But no death row prisoners
JUNE 15, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Sweden released Hamid Noury
Convicted of war crimes
JUNE 15, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Farhad Masoudian executed in Zanjan on June 15
JUNE 12, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Homayoun Salami executed in Hamedan on June 12
- JUNE 9, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
Iran - Mostafa Alipour executed in Yazd on June 9
JUNE 8, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Death sentence of Seyed Mohammad-Javad Vafaie overturned
Political prisoner
- JUNE 8, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Trial of jailed Iranian Nobel laureate Mohammadi opens in her absence
- JUNE 6, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Hatem Özdemir appeals death sentence to higher Iranian court
Kurdish political prisoner belonging to the People Defense Forces
JUNE 6, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Supreme Court Upholds Death Sentence for Sunni Cleric Mohammad Khezrnejad
- JUNE 5, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Nader Khosrawi and Nasrollah Ayoubi executed in Zanjan on June 5