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 8, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 unidentified women were executed on 8 April in Mashhad prison
IHR previously wrote of 2
- APRIL 7, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Shahram Goudarzi and Taher Shaabani executed in Aligudarz on April 7
APRIL 7, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hamid Abdouli executed in Dezful on April 7
APRIL 7, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Seyed Taha Hosseini executed in Bukan on April 7
- APRIL 6, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Samir Ghasemi executed in Qom on April 6
APRIL 6, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Kurdish political prisoner Pakhshan Azizi is at imminent risk of execution
After her second appeal was rejected by the Supreme Court
APRIL 6, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Sajad Farahani executed in Arak on April 6
APRIL 5, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hossein Malazadeh executed in Zanjan on April 5
APRIL 5, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Zahir Shamsi executed in Ahvaz on April 5
APRIL 5, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Jamil Reshadat executed in Ahvaz on April 5
APRIL 3, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - UN broad investigations into violations and crimes in Iran
APRIL 3, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Motion of the European Parliament on executions in Iran