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
JANUARY 30, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mehdi Salehzadeh and Abdollah Khademi executed in Isfahan on January 30
JANUARY 29, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 5 men executed in Shiraz
Hamid Fanaei, Amir Fanaei, Rasoul Minaei, Khosrow Abbaszadeh, and Mohammad Ali Heidari
JANUARY 29, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Female Prisoners in Evin
Report on 76 female political and security prisoners
JANUARY 28, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 53rd Week of Hunger Strikes in 34 Prisons
Year 2 of “No to Execution Tuesdays”
JANUARY 28, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Reza Radmand executed in Rasht “about a month ago”
information received by Hengaw on Feb. 28
JANUARY 27, 2025ItalyDEATH PENALTYIRAN - International Appeal to save Behrouz Ehsani and Mehdi Hassani
Two political prisoners whoi coulod be executed within hours
JANUARY 26, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 men executed in Karaj (Ghezel-Hesar) on January 26
Farzad Mirzaei, Farhad Ferdini, and Samad Hashemi
- JANUARY 26, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Hamid Jahangiri executed in Malayer on January 26
Already 81 executions in 2025
JANUARY 25, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hojjat Panahi executed in Rasht on January 25
JANUARY 25, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Iran accuses EU of ‘meddling’ after parliament condemned death penalties
- JANUARY 25, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mostafa Aminnejad and Ebrahim … executed on January 25
In Shiraz and Nishapur
- JANUARY 24, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Amjad Amini, Jina Amini's father, accused of "Propaganda against the state"
For supporting Pakhshan Azizi