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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AUGUST 20, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Vali-Karam Jaberi executed in Qazvin on August 20
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IRAN - Naghi Shahi and Yashar Lejehi executed in Tabriz on August 20
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IRAN - Morteza Sayvand and Reza Abbasi executed in Isfahan on August 20
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IRAN - State TV Airs Forced Confessions of Christian Converts
AUGUST 19, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Sajad Molayi Hakani executed in public on August 19
IHR considers it particularly serious that children witness hangings.
AUGUST 19, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 men executed in Kerman on August 19
Hassan Kahrazehi, Abedin Kahrazehi, Milad Narouyi
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IRAN - Behzad Zeinali executed in Arak on August 19
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IRAN - Hafiz Siahkhani executed in Iranshahr on August 19
AUGUST 19, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Six men executed in Bandar Abbas on August 19
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IRAN - 3 men executed in Kerman on August 19
Safarali Keyfari, Milad Narouei + Unk.
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IRAN - Mostafa Arjangi executed in Ardabil on August 19
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IRAN - Saeed Joghatay executed in Sabzevar on August 19
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IRAN - Davood Kashani executed in Hamedan on August 18
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IRAN - Ali Omidi-Moghadam and Iman Jouzi executed in Khorramabad on August 18
AUGUST 18, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Behrouz Sedghi and Arash Mahjour executed in Isfahan on August 18
AUGUST 18, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Saman Ghasemi executed in Amol on August 18
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IRAN - Mohammad Beqlani executed in Ahvaz on August 17
AUGUST 17, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ahmad Younesi and Mehdi Najafi executed in Shiraz on August 17
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IRAN - Salar Rahimzadeh executed in Shiraz on August 17
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IRAN - Javad Soheili and Nader Sepahdar executed in Mashhad on August 17
AUGUST 16, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - The death sentence of Sharifeh Mohammadi, a political prisoner, has been upheld
By the Supreme Court
- AUGUST 16, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Jafar Sadeghi executed in Rasht on August 16
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IRAN - Houshang Fathi and Siamand Sa’adati executed in Sari on August 16
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IRAN - Javad Esfandiari executed in Hamedan on August 13
AUGUST 13, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Eskandar Bazmandegan and Mohammad Kashifi executed in Shiraz
On security-related charges
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IRAN - Javad Yousefi and Omid Azizian executed in Mashhad on August 6
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IRAN - Hamid Sarlak executed in Dezful on August 12
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IRAN - Khamenei orders destruction of victims’ graves
To cover up evidence of the 1988 Massacre