Executions in April 2020

Listing of verifiable executions worldwide reported this month.

Country	No of executions
Afghanistan
America (USA)
Bangladesh	1
Belarus
Botswana
Chad
China
Egypt
India
Iran	29
Iraq
Japan
Jordan
Kuwait
Malaysia
Nigeria
Pakistan
Palestine (Gaza)
Saudi Arabia	2
Singapore
Somalia
Sudan
Taiwan	1
UAE
Vietnam
Yemen	1

34 men were executed in April, their details are as under.

Date	Country	Name	Method	Crime
01/04	Taiwan	Weng Jen-hsien	Shooting	Murder
07/04	Yemen	Essam Jaadan	Shooting	Rape/murder
08/04	Saudi Arabia	Muhsin Hammoud Al-Ghamdi	Beheading	Murder
11/04	Iran	Mostafa Salimi	Hanging	Armed robbery
12/04	Bangladesh	Abdul Majed	Hanging	Murder
15/04	Iran	Hossein Taheri	Hanging	Murder
16/04	Saudi Arabia	Imad Abdel Qawi Al-Mansouri	Beheading	Terrorist murder
18/04	Iran	Majid Esmaeilzadeh (j) + 1 unnamed man	Hanging	Murder
21/04	Iran	Shayan Saeedpour (j) Loghman Ahmadpour	Hanging	Murder
22/04	Iran	Mohsen Rezaian, Alireza Aryaei, Hamidreza Asgharpour, Mostafa Ghiasvand, Mehdi Asemi and Anna Dordi Babaei + Touraj Morad Haseli, Loqman Ahmadpour, Mojtaba Haeri and Jamal Jafari-Nansab (10 men)	Hanging	Murder
22/04	Iran	Ali Sheikhani	Hanging	Rape
23/04	Iran	Mohammad Haghighatnejad and Sina Mohammadi	Hanging	Murder
24/04	Iran	Abdul Wahed Faizi and Payam Mokhles	Hanging	Murder
25/04	Iran	Abd al-Basit Dahani	Hanging	Moharebeh
27/04	Iran	Keyvanullah Moradi	Hanging	Murder
27/04	Iran	Suleiman Mirzaei	Hanging	Drugs
28/04	Iran	Faegh Sharifi, Zarar Peyghami and Yasser Rasouli	Hanging	Murder
28/04	Iran	2 unnamed men	Hanging	Rape
30/04	Iran	Vahed Rostamzadeh	Hanging	Drugs

(f) = female, (j) = juvenile, (p) = public

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