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
MARCH 11, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Moein Salahvarzi executed in Ilam on March 11
After 32 years on death row
MARCH 11, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Nour-Mohammad Tajik and Abdolbaset … executed in Karaj on March 11
Afhan nationals
MARCH 11, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mansour Mansouri executed in Ilam on March 11
MARCH 8, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - UN Report Blames Islamic Republic for Mahsa Amini's Death
MARCH 8, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Report of the Iran Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on the Islamic Republic of Iran
Established by the United Nations Human Rights Council in November 2022
MARCH 7, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mehdi Gorgij executed in Zanjan on March 7
MARCH 7, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Fakhredin Mangur-Nejad and Abbas Dadvar executed in Mahabad on March 7
MARCH 7, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hadi Hadi Khanlu executed in Zanjan on March 7
MARCH 6, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Salim Bagheri executed in Kashan on March 6
MARCH 6, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Sweden: Hamid Noury’s Appeal Rejected
MARCH 6, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Farshad Rakhshani executed in Gonbad-e Kavus on March 6
MARCH 5, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - IHR 2023 year report: 834 executions
Hands off Cain counted 883