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
DECEMBER 7, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ameneh Alipour, a woman, executed in Zanjan on December 7
DECEMBER 6, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Report on situation of political prisoner Shiva Esmaili
- DECEMBER 5, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mahdi Hossein Zahi executed in Zahedan on December 5
DECEMBER 5, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Pakhshan Azizi has been denied visitation rights for the past 150 days.
Kurdish political prisoner on death row
DECEMBER 5, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ali Khaleqi Farghani executed in Mashhad on December 5
Execution carried out on his 22nd birthday
DECEMBER 4, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Narges Mohammadi was granted a medical leave
Nobel Peace Prize laureate and human rights activist
DECEMBER 4, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Sina Shams-Elahi executed in Miandoab on December 4
- DECEMBER 3, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 45th week of “No to Executions Tuesdays”
- DECEMBER 3, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 3 men executed in Tabriz on December 3
Khalil Hassanzadeh, Abdullah Panah, Rasoul Ebrahimi
DECEMBER 3, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Sadeq Asadi executed in Yasuj on December 3
DECEMBER 3, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hassan Sa’adati executed in Rasht on December 3
- DECEMBER 2, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Khadanur Gorgij executed on December 2