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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- MARCH 27, 2026IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Recruitment of children as young as 12 during war
MARCH 27, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hrana Report on 28th day of war
Strikes on Industrial Units and Infrastructure
MARCH 27, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Report on the arrest of 16 people
- MARCH 27, 2026IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Report on the Arrest of 113 Citizens
- MARCH 27, 2026IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Report on the arrest of dozens of citizens
MARCH 27, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Kianoush Adelpour arrested
For possessing a Starlink device
- MARCH 26, 2026IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Hrana Report on 27th day of war
Renewed Escalation in Strikes
MARCH 26, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - On the arrest of Christian convert Mohammad Nikbakht
MARCH 26, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hengaw Report on 1700 arrests during war
- MARCH 25, 2026IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Hrana Report on 26th day of war
Explosions Reach Razavi Khorasan Province
- MARCH 25, 2026IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - At Least 43 Arrested in Various Cities
MARCH 25, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 17-year-old Bahareh Golchin held incommunicado
- MARCH 24, 2026IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 113th Week of the “No to Execution Tuesdays” Campaign
- MARCH 24, 2026IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Hrana Report on 25th day of war
Heavy Strikes in Isfahan and Khuzestan
- MARCH 24, 2026IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Hengaw Report on 25th day of war
6,530 killed, including 640 civilians
- MARCH 24, 2026IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - At Least 501 Arrested in Connection with the War
MARCH 24, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Zahra Hojjat arrested after opposing use of rehabilitation center as human shield
MARCH 24, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Sima Chambari, a university student, was arrested
Her fate remains unknown
MARCH 24, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - IHR Warns of Mass Arrests Amid War
- MARCH 23, 2026IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Soheila Asadi executed in Isfahan on February 23
- MARCH 23, 2026IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Hrana Report on 24th day of war
A Deadly Day for Civilians
- MARCH 23, 2026IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Hrana Report on Arrests Against Citizens and Media
- MARCH 23, 2026IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Arrest of Iranian-Austrian dual national Abbas Danesh
- MARCH 22, 2026IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Hrana Report on 23rd day of war
More Than 15% of the Total Fatalities Are Minors
MARCH 22, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Parnian Khodabakhshi held in limbo nearly four weeks after arrest
University student
MARCH 22, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 57 Nobel Laureates Endorse the National Council of Resistance of Iran
MARCH 21, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Melika Azizi could be executed shortly
18-year-old girl arrested in January during protests
MARCH 21, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hrana Report on 22nd day of war
More Than 50% of the Strikes Target Tehran
- MARCH 20, 2026IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 140 arrested for sending images to foreign media and espionage
- MARCH 20, 2026IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - At Least 36 arrested for contacts with foreign media.