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 13, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Jalal Nazarbeigi executed in Hamedan on July 13
JULY 13, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mosaib Segvand executed in Khorramabad on July 13
JULY 12, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ilia Khalifehzadeh executed in public on July 12
JULY 12, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ali Mirza executed in Malayer on July 12
JULY 11, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Lennart Monterlos, a Franco-German Citizen, arrested in Iran
JULY 10, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Jafar Khoshkalam executed in Rasht on July 10
JULY 10, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Six Months On, No Word From Detained British Couple in Iran
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- JULY 10, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 2 unidentified men executed in Qom on July 10
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IRAN - Mohammad Tayeb Abdollahi and Naser Kazemzadeh executed in Shiraz on July 9
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IRAN - Ahmadali Mahdinejad executed in Navahand on July 9
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IRAN - 3 men executed in Zanjan on July 8
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JULY 4, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Cécile Kohler and Jacques Paris transferred to an undisclosed location
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Cécile Kohler and Jacques Paris
JULY 3, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Rezgar Beigzadeh Babamiri sentenced to death
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IRAN - Jabar Pourmohammadi Maghani executed in Zanjan on July 2
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IRAN - Hossein Ali Abedi executed in Ahar on July 1
- JUNE 30, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - New bill approved by parliament to punish collaborating with “hostile groups”
Death penalty for a wide range of offences
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Unidentified Afghan man
- JUNE 30, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
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