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
- APRIL 15, 2026IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Report on the Arrest of Mohammad-Parsa Golchin
Olympiad Gold Medal–Winning Literature Student
- APRIL 15, 2026IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - At Least 45 people arrested for ‘contacts with foreign media’.
- APRIL 15, 2026IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Woman Arrested for sending videos to foreign media
- APRIL 15, 2026IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 6 people arrested for sending videos top foreign media
Including 2 women
APRIL 15, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ali Zohrabi executed in Kashan on April 15
- APRIL 14, 2026IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Ehsan Hosseinipour Faces death sentence
A protester
- APRIL 14, 2026IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 8 people arrested by IRGC
‘Contacts with foreign media’
- APRIL 14, 2026IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 2 arrested for contact with foreign media
- APRIL 14, 2026IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 7 Foreign Nationals Arrested by IRGC
For having entered Iran illegally during the war
- APRIL 14, 2026IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Ghazal Mawlan killed in a drone strike by IRGC
APRIL 14, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Teachers’ Union Activist Mohammad-Ali Zahmatkesh Arrested
APRIL 14, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 50 people arrested in Tehran
For posting images of the war on social media