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
APRIL 12, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 4 men executed in Zahedan on April 12
Majid Lajei, Ramin (Rahmatollah) Alizahi, Davood Bajizahi (Shahouzehi), and Bashir Ahmad Rigi
APRIL 12, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Rabi Shah-Morad and Wasim Ahmad executed in Qazvin on April 12
APRIL 11, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Death sentence of Shahriar Bayat overturned
64-year-old political prisoner
APRIL 10, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ehsan Bamari and Yasin Bamari executed in Iranshahr on April 10
APRIL 10, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Moein Ashrafi executed in Shahroud on April 10
- APRIL 9, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Sajad Barahouei executed in Mashhad on April 9
- APRIL 9, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Soud Mirzaei and Vahid Ashouri executed in Shiraz on April 9, 2025
- APRIL 9, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Younes Kord e Esmail Dahmardeh giustiziati a Gonabad il 9 aprile
- APRIL 9, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Kambiz Fathi executed in Kermanshah on April 9
- APRIL 9, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 3 men executed in Karaj (Ghezel Hesar) on April 9
- APRIL 9, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN Gholamreza Pardakhteh executed in Shahrud on April 9
- APRIL 9, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Unidentified man executed in Karaj (Ghezel Hesar) on April 9th