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.
Latest news
DECEMBER 24, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mostafa Keifari and Sohrab Majidi executed on December 24
20 executions on December 24
DECEMBER 24, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Eskandar Bakhshoudeh executed in Isfahan on December 24
- DECEMBER 23, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - The 100th Week of the “No to Execution Tuesdays” Campaign
In 55 Prisons Across Iran
- DECEMBER 23, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Several people with Swedish-Iranian citizenship have been taken hostage by the Ministry of Intelligence
Report from Maryam Pezeshki, an Iranian artist and a friend of Hands off Cain
DECEMBER 23, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Senior Military Official: 2,000 Arrested on Espionage Charges
DECEMBER 23, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mahdieh Keyhani executed in Hamedan on December 23
DECEMBER 23, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - The execution of Javad Vafaei has been suspended
Political prisoner
- DECEMBER 23, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 9 men executed in various prisons on December 23
Karim Yousefi, Saman Barzegar, Yazdan Jozipour, Safarali Sadeghi, Nejat Yari, Manouchehr Mahaki, Houshang Amiri, Qanbar Farhadi, Shirzad Chamani
- DECEMBER 23, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 6 men executed in various prisons on December 23
Sepehr Moradi, Pejman Saeedi, + 4.
DECEMBER 23, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 400 influential women urge to halt execution of Zahra Tabari
DECEMBER 23, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Yaser Ghoreishi and Mohammadreza Nikkhah executed in Ghaemshahr on December 23
DECEMBER 23, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 9 men executed in various prisons on December 23
Mohammad Hassan Sharafi, Emad Asaf, Afshin Tusi, Habib Amouri, Naser Jannatpour, Rastin Karami, Jalal Taheri, Milad Norouzi, Yadollah Almasi
DECEMBER 23, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 men executed in Qazvin on December 23
Mohammadjafar Babaei, Asghar Tavakoli, Ebrahim Hakimi
- DECEMBER 22, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Supreme Court Upholds Death Sentence of Mehrab Abdollahzadeh
DECEMBER 22, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 8 men executed in various prisons on December 22
- DECEMBER 22, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mohammadreza Madadi and Kazem Hamidi executed in Gorgan on December 22
- DECEMBER 22, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Taher Bastani executed in Isfahan on December 22
DECEMBER 22, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 men executed in Isfahan on December 22
Nariman Mohammadi, Eskandar Bakhshoudeh, Taher Bastani
- DECEMBER 21, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 9 men executed in various prisons on December 21
Fariborz Ghasemi, Reza Dastar, Kazem Sourian, Vahid Pazouki, Ali Mohammad Koushki, Amir Mohammad Jadidi, Fardin Khani, Ebrahim Mashayekhi + 1
- DECEMBER 21, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Morad Sheghnaei and Mohammad Babrian executed in Taybad on December 21
- DECEMBER 21, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Rastin Karami executed in Sanandaj on December 21
- DECEMBER 20, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Aghil Keshavarz executed in Urmia on 20 December
Convicted of spying for Israel
DECEMBER 20, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Sajjad Marmozi executed in Ahvaz on December 20
- DECEMBER 20, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Moslem Salimi executed in Hamedan on December 20
- DECEMBER 20, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Behzad Hosseini-Rad executed in Kermanshah on December 20
- DECEMBER 20, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Kian Papi executed in Aligudarz on December 20
- DECEMBER 20, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Yashar Tehrani-Moqaddam executed in Karaj on December 20
- DECEMBER 20, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mohammad-Javad Kalani executed in Nahavand on December 20
- DECEMBER 20, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Hesam Nozari executed in Ardabil on December 20
- DECEMBER 20, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Yarhossein Hassanvand executed in Khorramabad on December 20