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 2, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mousa Ahmadian executed in Gorgan on December 2
DECEMBER 2, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 2 women and 2 men executed in Ilam on December 2
Farideh Jafarzadeh, Aliyeh Kavari-Zadeh, Hassan Hassan-Beigi, Abdolvahab Babakhaniyan
- DECEMBER 1, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - At least 126 prisoners executed during November 2024
Hengaw report
- DECEMBER 1, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Ahmad Shah-Bakhsh (Khanshini) executed in Zahedan on December 1
DECEMBER 1, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Toomaj Salehi released
DECEMBER 1, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Farkhondeh Allah Moradi executed in Isfahan on December 1
DECEMBER 1, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Peyman Zarei executed in Shiraz on December 1
- NOVEMBER 30, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 6 Political Prisoners Sentenced to Execution for PMOI Membership
Abolhassan Montazer, Pouya Ghobadi, Vahid Bani-Amrian, Babak Alipour, Ali Akbar Daneshvarkar, and Mohammad Taghavi
NOVEMBER 30, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 4 men executed in Karaj (Ghezel-Hesar) on November 30
Amir Moradi + 3 Unk.
NOVEMBER 30, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Nasrin Shakarami, mother of Nika Shakarami, sentenced to one year of imprisonment
NOVEMBER 29, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mehrab Abdullahzadeh sentenced to death
NOVEMBER 29, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYSINGAPORE - Iranian-Singaporean Masoud Rahimi Mehrzad executed on November 29
Arrested at 20 for 31 grams of diamorphine