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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NOVEMBER 17, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Behzad Hassani executed in Gorgan on November 17
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IRAN - Hesam Rahimkhani and Javad Moridan executed in Ahvaz on November 17
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IRAN - Mahmoud Azizi executed in Neyshabur on November 17
NOVEMBER 17, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Unidentified man executed in Ferdows on November 17
- NOVEMBER 16, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - … Yeganeh executed in Bam on November 16
NOVEMBER 16, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Shawkat Veysi, a woman, executed in Damghan on November 16
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IRAN - Seyed Ali Hashemi executed in Salmas on November 16
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IRAN - Habib Ezzati executed in Sanandaj on November 16
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IRAN - Mohammad Amin Safari executed in Bukan on November 16
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IRAN - Amin Shokarkhodaei executed in Arak on November 16
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IRAN - Yasin Esfandiari executed in Semnan on November 16
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IRAN - Unidentified man executed in Nahavand on November 16
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IRAN - Mosib Khalavand executed in Bandar Abbas on November 16
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IRAN - Sajad Habibi and Mohammadreza Basharat executed in Qazvin on November 16
- NOVEMBER 15, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Nour-Mohammad Rahmati executed in Aligudarz on November 15
- NOVEMBER 15, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Kamyar Fathi and Sajjad Hatami executed in Kermanshah on November 15
- NOVEMBER 15, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN Over 1,600 executions since the beginning of 2025.
At least 52 were women
- NOVEMBER 15, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Yarmorad Hasanvand executed in Khorramabad on November 15
NOVEMBER 15, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Jaber Saki and Jahan Rasouli executed in Dezful on November 15
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IRAN - Moslem Naderi executed in Isfahan on November 15
- NOVEMBER 14, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Reza Gerayi executed in Behbahan on November 14
- NOVEMBER 14, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Confirmation of Death Sentences for 3 Political Prisoner
Farshad Etemadifar, Masoud Jamei, and Alireza Mardasi
NOVEMBER 14, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Bahador Rafiei executed in Aligudarz on November 14
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IRAN - Abbas Beigi executed in Yasuj on November 14
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IRAN - Mozaffar Rahmanpanah executed in Nishapur on November 14
NOVEMBER 14, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - British Prisoners Craig and Lindsay Foreman Go on Hunger Strike
NOVEMBER 14, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 men executed in Urmia on November 14
Zabet al-Din (Adel) Jangjou Espidereh, Haji Nabizadeh and Abdolrahman Habibi
- NOVEMBER 14, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Salar Shamsollahi executed in Zanjan on November 14
1600 executions so far in 2025
- NOVEMBER 13, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Hassan Sadeghi Ghoushchi and Vahid Pakniakan executed in Urmia on November 13
NOVEMBER 13, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ali Safa Niazi executed in Shahrekord on November 13