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 9, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 6 killed in Isfahan on January 9
Abolfazl Bakhtiari Douraki, Farzin Rahimi Douraki, Khani Asadi, Shahram Maqsoudi, Mohsen Asadi, Navid Alam-Chehreh
JANUARY 9, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 killed in Karaj on January 8 and 9
Mohammadreza Zamini, Abolfazl Arvin-Talab, Moein Gholami
JANUARY 9, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Four killed during protests in Razavi Khorasan
Mohammad-Amin Hosseini, Sajad Ordouni Kabir, Mousa al-Reza Akbari e Abolfazl Paydar
JANUARY 9, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Amir Ali Jalilian killed on January 9
- JANUARY 8, 2026IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 5 killed in Tehran on January 8
Saeed Shirali, Alireza Salmani, Babak Sadeghi Mohseni, Ali Molaaqaei Rouzbehani, Ali Janani
JANUARY 8, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mansoureh Heidari and her husband Behrouz Mansouri killed
By Iranian forces in Bushehr
JANUARY 8, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Jamilollah Shahi and Mohammad Ashraf executed in Taybad on January 8
JANUARY 8, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ariana Arjmandi shot dead in Borujerd
JANUARY 8, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 18-year-old Zahra Bohlouli Pour killed in Tehran
Student of Italian Language at the University of Tehran
JANUARY 7, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 4 men executed in Qazvin on January 7
Hessam Moloudnejad, Alireza Yadegar + 2
- JANUARY 4, 2026IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Khosro Alishahi executed in Qom on January 4
- DECEMBER 31, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 5 men executed in Shiraz on December 31
Saeed Partouy, Ali Partouy, Arash Shams, Naser Mirzayi and Sohrab Imani
- DECEMBER 30, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Report on 3rd day of protests
DECEMBER 30, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 9 men executed in various prisons on December 30
Sajjad Veysi, Ali Akbar Barzegar, Peyman Zamani, Yahya Panahi Rad, Amin Khosroabadi, Mahmoud Zarei, Khodarahm Ahmadi, Ali Mohammad Dastar, Mansour Rigi
- DECEMBER 29, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 6 men executed in various prisons on December 29
Soheil Bakhtiari, Sobhan Safizadeh, Amir Mahdi Navabi, Sina Nadari, Marvan Emadabadi, Yaser Khatibi
- DECEMBER 29, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 4 men executed on December 29
Shoja Asgari, Heshmat Fallahi + 2
DECEMBER 28, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Bismullah Tajik executed in Bandar Abbas on December 28
At least 85 Afghan nationals executed in Iran since the beginning of 2025
- DECEMBER 28, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 3 men executed on December 28
- DECEMBER 28, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 8 men executed on December 28
Ali Safar Sepahvand, Mostafa Mehrjoo, Moein Hassanzadeh, Jamshid Akbari, Jafar Najafi, Mousa Rahimi-Rad, Azizali Kolkhani + 1
- DECEMBER 27, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 9 men executed on December 27
Khalil Nouri, Ahmadali Safari, Sirus Karami, Rahim Khodaparast, Milad Nejati, Abolfazl Enhesari, Ahmadreza Esfahani, Nariman Souri, Vihan Shah-Mohammadi
- DECEMBER 27, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mostafa Mehrjou and Ahmad Ali Saffari executed on December 27
- DECEMBER 26, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Abdulrahman Nahtani executed in Shiraz on November 26
DECEMBER 26, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Karim Khojasteh Sentenced to Death for Hanging a Protest Banner
DECEMBER 25, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - On 24 December, Iran reached and exceeded 2100 hangings since the beginning of 2025
DECEMBER 25, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 men executed in various prisons on December 25
Amin Safari, Majid Khani, Heshmat Beigi
- DECEMBER 25, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Murad Karimi-Galeh and Nowruz Khalafi executed in Shushtar on December 25
DECEMBER 24, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Zahra Khanzadeh and Amir Azizi executed in Mashhad on December 24
64th woman in 2025
DECEMBER 24, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Yaghoub Karimpour sentenced to death for “espionage for Israel"
- DECEMBER 24, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 12 men executed in various prisons on December 24
Masoud Moradi, Yaghoob Masoumi, Mohammad-Mehdi Adavi, Ebrahim Alizadeh, Mehdi Rajabali Zadeh, Nouraddin Panahi, Mohammad Nourian, Khodakaram Safapour, Nemat Khosravi, Noushad Kazemian, Nazir ... and Ayoub Dehqani
- DECEMBER 24, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 4 men executed in various prisons on December 24
Yarmohammad Saljouqi, Jahanshah Rashidian, Behrouz Sheikhi, … Rastegari