Infographic: Incarceration in Iran

This infographic examines statistics related to the state of Iran’s prison system and the broader implications of the Iranian judiciary’s approach to criminal justice, including the near-uninterrupted growth of the country’s prison population since the Revolution of 1978-79. Further information is available in Persian at the embedded links provided for each statistic utilized below, and also in IHRDC’s latest report, “Rights Disregarded: Prisons in the Islamic Republic of Iran.”