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 4, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Iman … and Mostafa Jamil Samadi executed in Shiraz on March 4
MARCH 3, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Milad Galavi executed in Khash on March 3
- MARCH 3, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Saeed … executed on March 3
Sentenced as a “Mossad agent”
MARCH 2, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - February 2024: 67 Kolbars Killed or Injured at the Borders of Kurdistan
MARCH 1, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - "Only" 10 eecutions in February
Becouse of the elections
FEBRUARY 26, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hengaw's statistical report on the state of Iran's prisons in 2023
Deaths of 11 prisoners under torture
FEBRUARY 21, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ahmad Esmaeili (Esmaili) executed in Hamedan on February 21
FEBRUARY 21, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Shahin Vasaf death penalty confirmed over Israel espionage charges
A Kurdish prisoner
- FEBRUARY 20, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - A woman, Hajar Atabaki, hanged in Qazvin on January 20
231 women executed in Iran since 2007
FEBRUARY 19, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Iraj Paaki executed in Urmia on February 19
- FEBRUARY 18, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Ashraf Akramullah executed in Isfahan on February 18
- FEBRUARY 13, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 4 Baloch political prisoners sentenced to death
Eidou Shahbakhsh, Abdul Ghani Shahbakhsh, Abdol Rahim Qanbarzahi Gargij, and Suleiman Shahbakhsh