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
- SEPTEMBER 23, 2021IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mass executions in prisons in the north of the country in September
- SEPTEMBER 22, 2021IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Ahmad Forouhid executed in Boroujerd Prison on September 22
For murder
- SEPTEMBER 22, 2021IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Unidentified man executed in Karaj Prison on September 22
for murder during a robbery
- SEPTEMBER 21, 2021IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Shahin Naseri Dies in Custody Under Suspicious Circumstances
Witness to Navid Afkari’s Torture
- SEPTEMBER 21, 2021IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mostafa Shafiei executed in Rajai Shahr Prison on September 22
For murder
SEPTEMBER 21, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Abed Khodaverdi and Arshad Jodat executed in Zanjan Prison on September 21
For drugs
SEPTEMBER 21, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Arshad Javdat Rabat (Javdatian) executed in Zanjan Prison on September 21
For drugs
SEPTEMBER 20, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Unidentified Afghan man executed in Taybad Prison on September 20
At least 75 executed on drug-related charges in Iran in 2021
- SEPTEMBER 15, 2021IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 5 Men Executed in Rajai Shahr Prison on September 15
Unidentified
SEPTEMBER 15, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Farshid Rakhshanirad Executed in Birjand on September 15
For drug-related charges
- SEPTEMBER 13, 2021IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - A man named Jafar was recently executed in Rajai Shahr Prison
AKA Gohardasht Central Prison, in Gohardasht, near Karaj
SEPTEMBER 13, 2021IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Yasser Mangouri is confirmed to have died in custody
A Kurdish political prisoner