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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IRAN - Bahman Hosseini executed in Gorgan on December 15
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IRAN - 3 men executed in Isfahan on December 15
Milad Sheikhi + 2
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IRAN - … Norzad executed in Nowshah on December 15
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IRAN - Sadegh Abdi executed in Qazvin on December 14
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IRAN - Mohammad Rahimi executed in Gorgan on December 14
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IRAN - Abolfazl Dana executed in Ardabil on December 14
DECEMBER 14, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Iran arrests Maryam Basir Tavana, member of justice-seeking families
DECEMBER 14, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Farhad Abdoli executed in Dezful on December 14
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IRAN - Mohammadamin Bakhtiari executed in Semnan on December 14
1950 executions since the beginning of 2025
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IRAN - Yaser Saki-zadeh executed in Qom on December 14
DECEMBER 14, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Khalegh Zolfaghari executed in Yazd on December 14
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IRAN - Soltan Morad Aslanpour executed in Tabriz on December 14
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IRAN - Mohammad Dinari executed in Arak on December 14
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IRAN - Ehsan Yari and Mohammad Karimi executed in Karaj on December 14
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IRAN - Unidentified man executed in Borujerd on December 14
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IRAN - Khalil Amkani executed in Bandar Abbas on December 14
DECEMBER 14, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mansour Ghane executed in Ahvaz on December 14
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IRAN - Kamran Nouri executed in Sanandaj on December 14
DECEMBER 13, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hassan Torki executed in Nahavand on December 13
DECEMBER 13, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Sedigheh Ghorbani, a woman, executed in Urmia on December 13
59th woman in 2025
- DECEMBER 13, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Gholam Saljouqi executed in Hamedan on December 13
DECEMBER 13, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 30 of those arrested alongside Nobel laureate Narges Mohammadi identified
At the memorial ceremony for lawyer Khosrow Alikurdi
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IRAN - Kaka Morad Jafari executed in Khorramabad on December 13
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IRAN - Farshid Sagvand executed in Aligudarz on December 13
DECEMBER 13, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hamideh Jabbari and Manouchehr Ramazani executed in Qom on December 13
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DECEMBER 13, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ali Eitvand and Keyumars Bahrami executed in Karaj on December 13
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IRAN - Hamzeh Sarlak executed in Dezful on December 13
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IRAN - Aziz Ali Moradi executed in Kermanshah on December 13