Executions in January 2008.

Listing of verifiable executions worldwide reported this month.

Country	No of executions
Afghanistan
America
Belarus
Botswana
China
Egypt
Iran	35
Iraq
Japan
Jordan
Kuwait
Libya	2
Malaysia
North Korea
Pakistan	1
Saudi Arabia	20
Sudan	2
Vietnam	3
Yemen
Total

59 men and 4 women were executed in January 2008, their details are as under.

Date	Country	Name	Method	Crime
01/01	Sudan	Motassem Abdallah Khairallah & Imad Tibn	Hanging	Murder
02/01	Iran	Raheleh Zamani (f) & Ali Reza + 6 unnamed men Abdul Qayyum & 4 unnamed men	Hanging Hanging (p)	Murder Drugs
02/01	Pakistan	Abdul Shakoor	Hanging	Murder
03/01	Iran	A. (no other detail given)	Hanging	Child rape
06/01	Iran	Abolfazl R. Abolfazl M.	Hanging (p) Hanging	Murder
08/01	Saudi Arabia	Saleh bin Ali bin Abdallah bin Hassan Bani Hamim	Beheading (p)	Murder
10/01	Iran	Mohammad Reza Sadeghirad and Ali Kord-Roudgarmi 3 unnamed men Mojtaba & Mohammad-Hossein	Hanging Hanging (p)	Murder Drugs Murder
12/01	Saudi Arabia	Yanti Irani Junu Sukardi (f)	Beheading (p)	Murder
14/01	Saudi Arabia	Abdullah bin Hamoud bin Mashari al-Odaili	Beheading (p)	Murder
14/01	Iran	Hassan Hekmat Demir	Hanging (p)	Terrorism
15/01	Saudi Arabia	Mishari bin Musa bin Maei al-Anzi	Beheading (p)	Murder
16/01	Saudi Arabia	Adel al Huthrumi Saudi Nashat Haji & Iman bint Ali bin Abdo Ghazaoui (f)	Beheading (p)	Kidnap & rape Murder
18/01	Vietnam	Tech A Lang, Du Van Quan, and Hoang Dinh Duc	Shooting	Drugs
20/01	Saudi Arabia	Abdul-Rahman al-Rasheed & Qashaan al-Sbe'ei	Beheading (p)	Drugs
20/01?	Libya	2 unnamed Ghanaian men	Shooting	Murder
22/01	Saudi Arabia	Hassan bin Al Hussein Ali Almeheisen and Abdel Razak bin Hassan Al Qatifi Mansour bin Nasser bin Hussein Jarad (3 men)	Beheading (p)	Murder Drugs
22/01	Iran	Hamed P.	Hanging (p)	Murder
23/01	Saudi Arabia	Abderrahman Ibrahim, Abu al-Taieb al-Tahar and Hussein Hassan (3 men)	Beheading (p)	Armed robbery
23/01	Saudi Arabia	Mohsen bin Hayef bin Naeim al-Badiri al-Moteiri	Beheading (p)	Murder
26/01	Iran	Reza Sharifi	Shooting	Child rape
28/01	Iran	Abutaleb Mohammadi-Nasab & Yazdan Karimi	Hanging (p)	Murder & rape
28/01	Iran	Unnamed man	Hanging	Bribery & corruption
29/01	Saudi Arabia	Tawa Lawal Ibrahim (f) Gholam Omah Shah Nawaz	Beheading (p)	Drugs
30/01	Saudi Arabia	Majed bin Hassan bin Darwish bin Jaber & Mohammed bin Bashir bin Hamid Husawi	Beheading (p)	Child rape
30/01	Iran	Faraz, Ramezan, Mohammad, Mohammad Abedi & Mohsen (5 men)	Hanging	Murder
30/01	Iran	Zamel Bavi	Hanging	Armed insurrection

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

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