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
DECEMBER 18, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mojtaba Jamshidian and Jebrael Naseri were executed in Rasht on December 14 and 18
DECEMBER 18, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mohammad Shamsollahi executed in Hamedan on December 18
DECEMBER 17, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - UN 71st Resolution Condemns Iran’s Human Rights Violations, Targeted Repression of Women
- DECEMBER 17, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Jamal Asgarabadi executed in Sari on December 17
DECEMBER 17, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 1 woman, 3 men executed in Sari on December 17
- DECEMBER 16, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Saman Mohammadi Khiareh at Imminent Risk of Execution
Kurdish political prisoner
DECEMBER 16, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Behzad Seyedi Bukani executed in Miandoab on December 16
- DECEMBER 15, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Ghorban Razi and Mohammad Kasrani executed in Tabriz on December 15
- DECEMBER 15, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Hamzeh Mirzapour executed in Gorgan on December 15
- DECEMBER 15, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 4 Men Executed in Zahedan on December 15
Mohammad Vazir Roudini, Yaghoub Barahouyi Moghaddam, Elias Tardast and Alireza Galebacheh
DECEMBER 15, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 6 men + 1 woman executed in Yazd on December 15
Mohammad Ali Kharkouhi, Reza Kharkouhi, Abdolbaset Toutazehi, Abdolnasser Toutazehi, Ne’matollah Toutazehi, Salah Rahimi + unidentified woman
DECEMBER 15, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hadi Molakazemi executed in Semnan on December 15