Iran
2026
- 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
- NOVEMBER 17, 2009IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN: ONE WOMAN AND TWO MEN HANGED
Three people, among them one woman, were hanged in the prison of Isfahan (Central Iran) early this
- NOVEMBER 17, 2009IranDEATH PENALTY
KURDISH MPS URGE IRAN TO RECONSIDER DEATH PENALTY
Iran's Kurdish lawmakers asked the country's judiciary to reconsider issuing death sentences on people from the Kurdish minority fearing it was distancing the ethnic group from the regime.
- NOVEMBER 15, 2009IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN: MAN HANGED IN PUBLIC
One man was hanged in a public square in the northern Iranian city of Qaemshahr in the Caspian Sea Mazandaran province, reported the Iranian daily newspaper Kayhan.
NOVEMBER 12, 2009IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN: TWO MEN HANGED IN HAMEDAN
Iran hanged two men convicted of rape and murder in the prison of Hamedan, western part of Iran, the
- NOVEMBER 11, 2009IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN: KURDISH POLITICAL PRISONER HANGED
Kurdish political prisoner Ehsan Fattahian was hanged in the prison of Sanandaj, the provincial capital of
- NOVEMBER 8, 2009IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN: KURDISH ACTIVIST EHSAN FATAHIYAN TO BE EXECUTED
the death sentence of Ehsan Fatahiyan, a 27 year old Kurdish activist in Iran, is set to be carried out on November 11, 2009.
NOVEMBER 7, 2009IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN: FOUR MEN HANGED FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING
Four men were hanged in the prison of Kerman (southeastern Iran) early this morning, reported the state run news agency Fars.
- NOVEMBER 4, 2009IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN: REVOKE DEATH SENTENCES FOR JUVENILE OFFENDERS
Sarah Leah Whitson, Middle East and North Africa director at Human Rights Watch, urged Iran to revoke the death sentences of Mehdi P., from Tabriz; Moshen G., from Shiraz; and Nemat Safavi, from Ardebil.
NOVEMBER 2, 2009IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN: ABDOLHAMID RIGI EXECUTED IN ZAHEDAN
According to the Iranian Police news center, a member of the militant group "Jondollah", identified as Abdolhamid Rigi, was hanged in the prison of Zahedan.
- OCTOBER 22, 2009IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN LAWYER SEEKS CASH TO SPARE YOUNG ON DEATH ROW
an Iranian human rights lawyer launched an appeal for money to help avert the executions of juvenile offenders in the Islamic Republic.
OCTOBER 21, 2009IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN: FIVE PEOPLE EXECUTED IN TEHRAN
one woman and four men were executed in Tehran’s Evin prison early the morning.
- OCTOBER 20, 2009United Arab EmiratesDEATH PENALTY
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES: TWO GET CAPITAL PUNISHMENT FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING
the Khorfakan Criminal Court in Fujairah, United Arab Emirates, sentenced a UAE woman, 47, and her