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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JULY 30, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Yousef Amiri executed in Tabriz on July 30
JULY 29, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Navid Rostami executed in Kermanshah on July 29
766 executions in Iran in 2025
- JULY 29, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Nazir Mohammad + Unk executed in Birjand on July 29
JULY 29, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mohammad Shabestan executed in Sari on July 29
JULY 29, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mohammad Rikani executed in Ahvaz on July 29
- JULY 29, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Arash Mohammadi executed in Nahavand on July 29
- JULY 28, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Yehuda Hekmati, American-Jewish citizen, arrested
One of the two American-Jewish citizens recently detained in Iran
JULY 28, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Isa Narouyi and Amir Ghanbari executed in Minab on July 28
- JULY 28, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Ismail Hajivand executed in Malayer on July 28
JULY 28, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Iran Says Executions Limited To ‘Most Severe Crimes’
After UN Criticism
JULY 28, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - UN says Iran executions surge ‘deeply disturbing’
- JULY 28, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Sadeghollah Verdi executed in Tabriz on July 28
JULY 27, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Political prisoners Behrooz Ehsani Eslamlou and Mehdi Hasani executed in Karaj on July 27
JULY 27, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Reza Mirforoughi executed in Isfahan on July 27
- JULY 27, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Hamzeh Moradian executed in Khorramabad on July 27
756 executions in 2025
- JULY 27, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Saeed Kashani and Naser Nazari Tehrani executed in Karaj on July 27
JULY 27, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Alireza Mirforughi and Saleh Hatami executed in Isfahan on July 27
JULY 27, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Special forces strormed Ghezel Hesar prison
- JULY 27, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Hossein Akbari executed in Arak on July 27
JULY 27, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mahmoud Shirbeigi executed in Qom on July 27
JULY 27, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Saeed Kashani and Naser Nazari Tehrani executed in Ghezel Hesar on July 27
JULY 27, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 4 men executed in Shiraz on July 27
Ahmad Mahdavi, Armin Gerayi, Saber Yari + 1 unidentified man
JULY 27, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Masoumeh Asgari, Masoumeh Nassaji, and Sayeh Seydal transferred to solitary confinement
The political prisoners protested detention conditions
- JULY 26, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Khodayar Ahmadkhani executed in Taybad on July 26
- JULY 26, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Abolfazl Shakeri executed in Zanjan on July 26
- JULY 24, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Jahangir Fouladi executed in Zanjan on July 24
- JULY 24, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Ashkan Mehdipanah and Mehdi Heidari executed in Hamedan on July 24
JULY 24, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Yaghoub Derakhshan, a political prisoner, sentenced to death
JULY 24, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Peyman Mohammad Rezaei executed in Buin Zahra on July 24
- JULY 23, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Houshang Mahmoudian executed in Shiraz on July 23