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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DECEMBER 13, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hossein Ali Koulivand and Morad Jafari executed in Khorramabad on December 13
DECEMBER 13, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - … Golmohammadi executed in Nahavand on December 13
DECEMBER 12, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 16 arrests, including Nobel laureate Mohammadi
During a ceremony for the suspicious death of Khosrow Alikurdi
DECEMBER 11, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Manouchehr Navabi executed in Taybad on December 11
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IRAN - Mohammad Ghahremani executed in Ferdows on December 11
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IRAN - Sasan Sheikhi executed in Behbahan on December 11
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IRAN - Kabir Mahmoudvand executed in Mahshahr on December 11
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IRAN - Yaser Jahantigh executed in Sari on December 11
DECEMBER 11, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Kavian … executed in Bukan on December 11
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IRAN - Ali Shamloo executed in Bojnord on December 11
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IRAN - Unidentified man executed in Taybad on December 11
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IRAN - Kourosh Sabzi giustiziato a Kashmar il 10 dicembre
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IRAN - Reza Abbasian and Khalil Fadaei executed in Semnan on December 10
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IRAN - Ne'mat Behirayi executed in Bushehr on December 10
DECEMBER 10, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Elnaz Azizi, a woman, executed in Mashhad on December 10
DECEMBER 10, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hassan-Morad Haqi executed in Damghan on December 10
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IRAN - Mohammad Karim Siyadi executed in Shahr-e Kord on December 10
DECEMBER 10, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mehrdad Mirzaei executed in Rasht on December 10
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IRAN - Reza Sabzi executed in Malayer on December 10
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IRAN - Nour Mohammad Shabani executed in Sabzevar on December 10
- DECEMBER 10, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Khodabakhsh Elyasi executed in Shiraz on December 10
DECEMBER 10, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - On 10 December, Iran exceeded the threshold of 1,900 executions
1,908 executions since the beginning of 2025
- DECEMBER 10, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Saeed Khosh-Kalam executed in Rasht on December 10
- DECEMBER 10, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Unidentified man executed in Mashhad on December 10
- DECEMBER 10, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Unidentified man executed in Chabahar on December 10
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IRAN - Sohail Hamidi executed in Mahabad on December 10
- DECEMBER 10, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 3 men executed in Shiraz on December 10
Khoda-Bakhsh Elyasi + 2
- DECEMBER 10, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Unidentified man executed in Chabahar on December 10
- DECEMBER 10, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Salim Afrashteh executed in Dorud on December 10
DECEMBER 10, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Death sentence of Varisheh Moradi overturned
Kurdish political prisoner