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
FEBRUARY 12, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mehdi Shabakhsh Pirsorani and Tayeb Javadi executed in Isfahan on February 12
FEBRUARY 12, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Javad Kakavand executed in Malayer on February 12
- FEBRUARY 11, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 55th Week of the “No to Execution Tuesdays” Campaign
Hunger strike in in 35 Prisons Across Iran
FEBRUARY 9, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Shahram Manafzadeh and Farhad Abdoli executed in Tabriz on February 9
FEBRUARY 9, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Pejman Soltani sentenced to death
Kurdish political prisoner, arrested during the “Jin, Jiyan, Azadi” movement
- FEBRUARY 8, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - On February 8, a woman who partially undressed on a street in Tehran was arrested
The arrest of three other individuals in connection with the incident
FEBRUARY 8, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ali Rezaei executed in Zanjan on February 8
FEBRUARY 6, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Kurdish political prisoner Pakhshan Azizi is at imminent risk of execution
After her appeal was rejected by the Supreme Court
FEBRUARY 6, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - A woman, Mahtab Ghazizadeh, executed in Sari on February 6
265 women have been executed in Iran since 2007
- FEBRUARY 5, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Golmohammad Gorgij and Abdulhamid Kohkan executed in Gorgan on January 5
FEBRUARY 5, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mehdi Ahmadi and Saeed Gholami executed in Kermanshah on February 5
- FEBRUARY 5, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Salman Hamdard executed in Borujerd on February 5