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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SEPTEMBER 28, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mehran Beyranvand executed in Malayer on September 28
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IRAN - Bijan Soleimani executed in Nahavand on September 28
SEPTEMBER 28, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Rasoul Farahbash executed in Mashhad on September 28
SEPTEMBER 27, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 men executed in Khorramabad on September 27
Younes Ahmadi, Mehdi Veisi and Ghodrat Nazari
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IRAN - Mostafa Kadkhodaei executed in Isfahan on September 27
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Political prisoner
SEPTEMBER 24, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 men executed in Ghezel Hesar on September 24
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SEPTEMBER 24, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 1 woman and 2 men executed in Shiraz on September 24
Mahnaz Dehqani, Kamran Amirzadegan, and Seyed Morad Hemmat
SEPTEMBER 24, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Meysam Karami and Jaber Asgari executed in Ghezel Hesar on September 24
SEPTEMBER 24, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 4 men executed in Isfahan on September 24
Ali Keshavarz, Sajad Aslani, Ahmad Bakhtiar, Keyvan Rahmati
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IRAN - Ali Saberi executed in Ilam on September 24, 2025
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IRAN - Bijan Soleimani executed in Navahand on September 24
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IRAN - Farhad Mehdipour executed in Ilam on September 24
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IRAN - Jahan Houshmand executed in Ahvaz on September 24
SEPTEMBER 24, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Aria Soltani executed in Shiraz on September 24
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IRAN - Reza Mahdinejad executed in Ghezel-Hesar on September 24
SEPTEMBER 24, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Keyvan Mohammadi executed in Zanjan on September 24
SEPTEMBER 24, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Roya Abbas-zadeh executed in Zanjan on September 24
A 25-year-old Turkish woman
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IRAN - 87th Week of the “No to Execution Tuesdays” Campaign
SEPTEMBER 23, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Kolsoum Akbari handed 10 death sentences for poisoning 11 husbands
- SEPTEMBER 23, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Farhad Mahdipur executed in Ilam on September 23, 2025
SEPTEMBER 22, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Nader Fathi executed in Sari on September 22
- SEPTEMBER 21, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mohammad Beqlani executed in Borazjan on September 21
- SEPTEMBER 21, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mojtaba Mahdavi and … Ahmadi executed in Taybad on September 21
- SEPTEMBER 21, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Payman Jamshidi executed in Khorramabad on September 21
SEPTEMBER 21, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Abdolaziz Ghaljayi executed in Zahedan on September 21
1102 executions in Iran in 2025
SEPTEMBER 21, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mousa Alizadeh and Vahid Ebrahimi executed in Isfahan on September 21
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