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 28, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 28 more executions between 24 and 28 January
318 executions in the first 4 weeks of January
JANUARY 28, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Kaveh Hosseinzadeh executed in Yazd on January 28
JANUARY 28, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 5 men executed in Shiraz on January 28
Seifeddin Mehraban, Namegh Kasravi, Saeed Amjadi, Rahim Mirzazadeh, Ebrahim Abbasi
- JANUARY 27, 2026IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 105th week of the ‘No to Execution Tuesdays’ campaign
- JANUARY 27, 2026IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Hrana Report on 31st day of protests: 6,221 confirmed deaths, 17,091 under investigation
- JANUARY 27, 2026IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Taher Malekshahi, a 12-year-old boy, lost one eye
After being intentionally shot in the face
JANUARY 27, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hengaw's special report on the massacre at Rasht Bazaar.
JANUARY 27, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Dr. Alireza Golchini arrested for treating injured protesters
Charged with “waging war against God”
- JANUARY 27, 2026IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mehrdad Yaghoubi-Mehr killed in Tehran on 8 January
JANUARY 27, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 9 people executed on January 27
Karim Enhesari, Mehran Akhbari, Mehdi Balali, Abbas Karami, Ghobad Fathi, Mojtaba Azizi, Sanjar Dolat-Rashid, Khodakaram Moradi, and Rajabali Nourzad
JANUARY 27, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Abolfazl Beig Mohammadi and Javad Haghighat Hanged in Zanjan on January 27
- JANUARY 26, 2026IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Hrana Report on 30th day of protests: 6,126 confirmed deaths, 17,091 under investigation