167 executions since the beginning of the year

Omid Teymourirad, Amir Teymourirad, Armin Teymourirad

Nasir Nasiri, Arsalan Ghahramani, and Omid Saeedi

Hamid Arzanlou, Vahid Arzanlou, Mohammadreza Entezami, Milad Gholami, Ali Sadeghi

A Japanese court rejected on January 16, 2026 three death-row inmates' demands against the state to halt their executions by hanging as an inhumane practice in violation of an international convention prohibiting cruel punishment.

Morteza Shaneh, Parsa Saffar, Hamid Mahdavi, Abbasali Ramezani

Amir Mohammad Arbabpouri, Melina Asadi, Sam Afshari, Abolfazl Heydari-Moslou, Mohammad Ghasem-Rousta, Mehrab Golestani, Amir Salar Bahmaninejad

Behnam Darvish, Mehrdad Yaghoubi Mehr, Ali Behroozdoust, Hossein Naseri, Masoud Bolourchi, Ahmad Abbasi

Mehran Rafiei, Shahin Azar-Atash, Mostafa Tabrizi, Houman Sabbagh, Afshin Miyarkiani, Matin Montazerzohour, Sina Haghshenas

Sholeh Sotoudeh, Sara Behboodi, Ziba Dastjerdi, Zahra Bagheri, Sanam Pourbabayi, Aida Aghili