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 22, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Identities of 4 killed in Shahrekord, Kerman, Yazd, and Lordegan
Alireza Ahmadi Babadi, Mehdi Iranpour, Danial Karshenas, Ali Khaledi
JANUARY 22, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Identities of ten people killed in Gilan and Mazandaran
Abbas Keshavarz, Matin Khosravi, Mahmoud Farajnia, Mohammad Hajipour, Reza Samieipour, Pouya Khairkhah, Ershad Shahbazi, Hamed Bamdadi (Aliabadi), Yahya-Kia Deliri, Manouchehr Nikpour
JANUARY 22, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Identities of 21 people killed in Isfahan Province
Hossein Mahmoudi Baram, Pouya Qashqaei, Abdollah Adibi, Hossein Barati, Abbas Aminzadeh, Mehdi Abdali, Iman Najjar Hosseini, Amir Abbas Baghestani, Mobin Ashouri, Mehdi Abdali, Seyed Hossein Mousavi, Javad Ranjbar, Mohammad Khalili, Peyman Barati, Majid H
JANUARY 22, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Identities of ten Kurds killed in Tehran, Karaj, Qazvin, and Mashhad
JANUARY 22, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Protester (of 2023) Armin Nour-Mohammadi sentenced to death
On charges of moharebeh
JANUARY 22, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 14 men executed from January 19 to 22
JANUARY 22, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - IHR report on 25th day of protests: 3428 victims confirmed
Regime provides downward figures on victims of protests
- JANUARY 21, 2026IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Identities of 3 killed in Golestan Province
Reza Asadi, Safa Farzanfar, Kianoush Mirghasemi
- JANUARY 21, 2026IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 4 men executed on January 20
Mikaeil Bahari, Kamran Ghiasvand, Foroud Sagvand, Mardan Saeedi
JANUARY 21, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 12 men executed on January 21
JANUARY 21, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - IHR Report on 25th day of protests
JANUARY 21, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Eight women killed during protests in Isfahan, Kermanshah, and Gilan
Melika Dastiyab, Elham Zeinali, Taybeh Rezaei, Parisa Taghibi, Zahra Mahmoudpour, Fatemeh Tabibi, Niloufar Masoudi
JANUARY 21, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Identities of six more people killed in Kermanshah
Farhad Balashzar, Saeed Kahrari, Farzad Khirdar, Mohammadamin Salami, Meysam Karani, Seyed Arman Mousavi
JANUARY 21, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hrana Report on 25th day of protests: 4,902 confirmed fatalities, 9,387 under review
JANUARY 21, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Identities of 8 killed in Islam-Abad-e Gharb
JANUARY 21, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 4 killed in Bandar Abbas protests
Esmail Ghalandarzehi, Seyed Ahmad Kazemi, Mehrshad Ragbar, Mohammad-Amin Khatam
JANUARY 21, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 8 killed in Isfahan
Mohammadreza Ghorbani, Mehrdad Rihani, Mohammad-Hossein Mousavi, Ali Pouladastoun, Hamid Faqih, Morteza Shahzidi, Hadi Havayi, Hamid Ganji
- JANUARY 20, 2026IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - IHR Report on 24th day of protests
- JANUARY 20, 2026IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Identification of 6 victims in Tehran
Mani Safarpour, Alireza Rahimi, Amirhossein Sohrabi, Erfan Abdipour, Omid Fadakar, and Mohammad Nobakht
- JANUARY 20, 2026IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 3 students killed
Amirali Zarei, Alireza Rafiei-Rad, Ali Zanganeh
- JANUARY 20, 2026IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Identities of five more Killed in Tehran
Meysam Khazaei, Shahrouz Mehrabi, Mohammadreza Avazpour, Majid Jalilian, Yashar Soltanirad
JANUARY 20, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 13 men executed on January 19 and 20
JANUARY 20, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - HRANA Report on 24th day of protests: 4,519 confirmed deaths, 9,049 deaths still under investigation, 26.000 arrested
JANUARY 20, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Amir Mohammad Karami and Saman Gerami killed in Fars Province
JANUARY 20, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Saeed Tarvand killed in Abadan
JANUARY 20, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 5 killed in Isfahan
Mohammadreza Davashi Bakhtiari, Farshid Moradi, Ahmadreza Golkhani, Naser Mohedenia, Milad Koochaki
JANUARY 20, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Two women among five killed in Kermanshah
Melika Dastyab, Elham Zeinali, Hassan Fallahi, Elham Zeinali, Reza Darvishi, Mohammad Mehdi Badri
JANUARY 20, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Soldier sentenced to death for refusing to shoot protesters
Javid Khales
- JANUARY 19, 2026IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 3 men executed in Isfahan on January 6
Khodadad Mozafari, Ali Bahman and Hamid Jahangiri
- JANUARY 19, 2026IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Seven more women identified among those killed
Maedeh Moradikya, Arezu Abedi, Ghazal Aghaei Lindi, Farzaneh Tavakoli, Mona Hosseini, Sonia Salehirad, Nastaran Zaremanesh