Executions in August 2017

Listing of verifiable executions worldwide reported this month.

Country	No of executions
Afghanistan
America (USA)	1
Bangladesh
Belarus
Botswana
Chad
China
Egypt
Indonesia
Iran	60
Iraq
Japan
Jordan
Kuwait
Malaysia
Nigeria
Pakistan
Palestine (Gaza)
Saudi Arabia	15
Singapore
Somalia
South Sudan
UAE
Vietnam
Yemen	1

77 men were executed in August, their details are as under.

Date	Country	Name	Method	Crime
01/08	Iran	Hossein Sarooki	Hanging (p)	Murder
01/08	Saudi Arabia	Nayef bin Lamaan bin Mohammed al-Hawayashli al-Dosari	Beheading (p)	Murder
01/08	Saudi Arabia	Zubair Ahmed Muhammed Afzal	Beheading (p)	Drugs
02/08	Iran	Morteza Rahmani	Hanging	Terrorism
02/08	Iran	Abolhassan Abravan, Ata Atazadeh, and Hassan Arefianfar+ 1 unnamed man	Hanging	Murder
02/08	Saudi Arabia	Ameri Hussein Ibrahim al-Qarini	Beheading (p)	Drugs
03/08	Saudi Arabia	Mutaab bin Hamud bin Shalil al-Jabr al-Qahtani	Beheading (p)	Murder
04/08	Iran	1 unnamed man	Hanging	Rape
05/08	Iran	Mojtaba	Hanging	Murder
05/08	Iran	Hamed Ghaedrahmat, Saeid Pourhormoz and Hossein Shahi	Hanging	Drugs
06/08	Iran	A. R.	Hanging (p)	Kidnap and rape
07/08	Iran	Tohid Haghmoradi	Hanging	Murder
07/08	Iran	Javad Reigi	Hanging	Drugs
08/08	Saudi Arabia	Jamal bin Mohamme bin Hawi al-Jizani	Beheading (p)	Murder
09/08	Iran	Nader Farrokhnejad	Hanging	Drugs
09/08	Iran	Abraham Erishi	Hanging	Murder
10/08	Iran	Alireza Tajik (j) R.Ansari & Fazel Mazraeh + 1 unnamed man	Hanging	Murder
10/08	Iran	Khani Khaled, Barat Emadi, Mohammad Reza Ayoubi, Abolfazl Yousefpour, Haji Moezi, Mehrdad Beghershams, Hadi Eem, Hadi Jafari & 3 unnamed men (11)	Hanging	Drugs
12/08	Saudi Arabia	Aayedh bin Nasser bin Fehad al-Fadhel al-Qahtani	Beheading (p)	Murder
13/08	Iran	Mojtaba Heydari Abbasali	Hanging	Drugs
14/08	Yemen	Hussein al-Saket	Shooting (p)	Rape/murder of child
14/08	Saudi Arabia	Sultan bin Selim bin Salama al-Laqmani	Beheading (p)	Murder
15/08	Iran	Hamza Rahimpour and Abbas Souqi	Hanging	Drugs
15/08	Iran	Khaled Amini, Mahmoud Arab Khorasani, Mehdi Kaseb, and Mohammad Taghi Dehparvar	Hanging	Murder
15/08	Saudi Arabia	Ali Ibrahim Jibran Ahmed, Shuei Issa Yusef Hajaji & Yahya Ali Musa Aati	Beheading (p)	Drugs
16/08	Iran	Mostafa Bashkouh, Rasoul Gol Mohammadi, Shahram Abadeh, Seyed Mohammad Seyed Abdollah, and Moharram Abdi + 3 unnamed men	Hanging	Murder
16/08	Iran	Mahmoud Khorasani, Mehdi Kaseb and Mohammad Taghi Delpurvar	Hanging	Murder
16/08	Iran	Manouchehr Heydarkhah	Hanging	Drugs
20/08	Iran	Mojtaba Heydari Abbasali	Hanging	Drugs
21/08	Iran	Ali Asghar	Hanging (p)	Murder
21/08	Iran	Abdolkarim Shahbakhsh	Hanging	Drugs
21/08	Saudi Arabia	Sultan bin Sarie bin Luwifi al-Omrani and Ziyad bin Attiyah bin Sulaiman al-Omrani	Beheading (p)	Drugs
22/08	Iran	Arya Javidan	Hanging	Armed robbery
23/08	Iran	Seyed Jamal Seyed Mousavi	Hanging	Armed robbery
23/08	Iran	Sadegh Gholami	Hanging	Drugs
24/08	Saudi Arabia	Abdullah Jaber Salem Baider, Fawaz Abdullah Salem Ibrahim and Issa Mitan Mohammed Ajibi	Beheading (p)	Drugs
24/08	America - Florida	Mark Asay	Injection	Murder
28/08	Iran	Murad	Hanging	Rape
29/08	Iran	1 unnamed man	Hanging	Rape
30/08	Iran	Fardin Hosseini and Massoud Vaizadeh	Hanging	Drugs
30/08	Iran	1 unnamed man	Hanging (p)	Rape
30/08	Iran	Mohammad Mirzaiei	Hanging (p)	Murder

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

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