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
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- APRIL 9, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Behrouz Shirmohammadli executed in Gonbad-e Kavus on April 9
APRIL 9, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Iman Salimi executed in Borazjan on April 9
- APRIL 9, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Alireza Seifi executed in Shiraz on April 9
APRIL 9, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 7 Men Hanged in Karaj (Ghezel Hesar) on April 9
Sajad Akbari, Bahram Hodavand Khani, Salar Amir Jalali, Abolfazl Karimi, Mehdi Salan and two unidentified men. Hengaw (and HoC) already reported the execution of 4 of them
APRIL 9, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ebrahim Memari Hanged in Ahvaz on April 9
- APRIL 9, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 2 more men executed in Karaj (Ghezel Hesar) an April 9
Meysam Veysi and Shir-Mohammad Nazarollah
APRIL 9, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Seifollah Nasiri executed Tabriz on 9 April
APRIL 9, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Shamseddin Fazli Hanged in Tabriz on April 9
- APRIL 8, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Amir Ahmad Sanai (Mazarehei) and Mohammadreza Damideh executed in Mashhad on April 8
- APRIL 8, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 2 Women and 3 Men executed in Mashhad on April 8
2 Unk women and Mohammadreza Damideh, Amirahmad Sanayi, Sajad Barahouyi
APRIL 8, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Five Political Prisoners Executed in Mashhad on April 8
Farhad Shakeri, Abdolhakim Azim Gorgij, Abdolrahman Gorgij, Taj Mohammad Khormali, and Malek-Ali Fadaie-Nasab