Iran
Death penalty and prisoners' rights · Archive since 1999
Data card
- Legal status
- Retentionist
- Executions recorded in 2026
- 869
- Executions recorded in 2025
- 2,156
- First news item in the archive
- JANUARY 1, 1999 · The 1999 figures for capital sentences and executions...
- News items in the archive
- 8,610
Source: Hands Off Cain database, updated to 2026.
Iran is classified as Retentionist in the Hands Off Cain database, updated to 2026. In 2026 the association recorded 869 executions in the country, against 2,156 the year before. The archive holds 8,610 news items on Iran, from 1999 to today.
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- JANUARY 29, 2026IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Names of 1449 Martyrs of the Nationwide Uprising Released
- JANUARY 29, 2026IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Morad Azizi and Karim Nazri executed in Taybad on January 29
JANUARY 29, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - IHR Report on 33rd day of protests: Arrests, Incommunicado Detention and Unknown Fate of Disappeared
JANUARY 29, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Day 33 of the Protests: 6,479 confirmed deaths, 17,091 still under investigation
EU Designates IRGC as a Terrorist Organization as Repression Persists
JANUARY 29, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Sajad Rahimi amongst the killed
JANUARY 29, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 9 men hanged on January 29
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- JANUARY 28, 2026IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Amir Rouhi and Amir Hossein Tavakoli Zanyani executed on January 28
JANUARY 28, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 4 Afghan nationals killed during Mashhad protests
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JANUARY 28, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hamidreza Sabet Esmailpour executed in Ghezel-Hesar on January 28
On charges of “espionage for Israel”
- JANUARY 28, 2026IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 24 people, including two women, executed between October 12 to January 20
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JANUARY 28, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hrana Report on 32nd day of protests: 6,373 confirmed fatalities, 17,091 under review
JANUARY 28, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 12 killed in Esfarayen
- JANUARY 28, 2026IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 11 people executed on January 28
JANUARY 28, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hashem Abbasi executed in Ahar on January 28
JANUARY 28, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 6 men executed in Rasht between 7 to 18 January
Mehran Shokat, Mousa Rahbar, Taher Yazdani, Ali Zadakbari, Mansour Asghari + 1
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JANUARY 28, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hamidreza Sabet Esmaeilpour executed on January 28
On charges of “espionage for Israel”
- JANUARY 28, 2026IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 28 more executions between 24 and 28 January
318 executions in the first 4 weeks of January
JANUARY 28, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Kaveh Hosseinzadeh executed in Yazd on January 28
JANUARY 28, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 5 men executed in Shiraz on January 28
Seifeddin Mehraban, Namegh Kasravi, Saeed Amjadi, Rahim Mirzazadeh, Ebrahim Abbasi
- JANUARY 27, 2026IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 105th week of the ‘No to Execution Tuesdays’ campaign
- JANUARY 27, 2026IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Hrana Report on 31st day of protests: 6,221 confirmed deaths, 17,091 under investigation
- JANUARY 27, 2026IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Taher Malekshahi, a 12-year-old boy, lost one eye
After being intentionally shot in the face
JANUARY 27, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hengaw's special report on the massacre at Rasht Bazaar.
JANUARY 27, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Dr. Alireza Golchini arrested for treating injured protesters
Charged with “waging war against God”
- JANUARY 27, 2026IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mehrdad Yaghoubi-Mehr killed in Tehran on 8 January
JANUARY 27, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 9 people executed on January 27
Karim Enhesari, Mehran Akhbari, Mehdi Balali, Abbas Karami, Ghobad Fathi, Mojtaba Azizi, Sanjar Dolat-Rashid, Khodakaram Moradi, and Rajabali Nourzad
- JANUARY 27, 2026IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Abolfazl Beig Mohammadi and Javad Haghighat Hanged in Zanjan on January 27