four men were hanged in the prison of Qom, south of Tehran, reported the government newspaper "Iran".

one man was hanged in the prison of Semnan (northern Iran), reported the official Iranian news agency Irna.

one woman and one man were hanged in the prison of Shiraz (southern Iran), reported the Iranian daily Etemad.

two people were hanged in the prison of Boroujed, (Lorestan province, western Iran), reported the Iranian daily Kayhan.

a Saudi Arabian man was beheaded by the sword for shooting dead a Yemeni man in a fight over the sale of hashish, the Interior Ministry said in a statement carried by SPA state news agency.

a Saudi Arabian man who shot dead two compatriots was beheaded by the sword in the holy city of Mecca, the official SPA news agency reported. It quoted the interior ministry as saying the man, named as Ali Assiri, shot the two others dead in a dispute.

four men were executed for murder, a court in east China's Anhui Province said.

China is to introduce tighter rules governing prosecution evidence in death penalty cases, state media said.

Muneer Ahmed Hussein Shah, a Bangladeshi national residing in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, was executed for murder. A statement by the Saudi Interior Ministry said Shah pleaded guilty to raping a woman, trying to suffocate her and setting her on fire.

two men convicted of rape were executed in a prison in the southern Iranian city of Shiraz, the Etemad newspaper reported.

Wu Tianxi, 63, the former vice chairman of the Zhenping county committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, was executed in Nanyang, in China’s Henan province.

Iran has hanged a man convicted of rape and murder in an execution carried out in a prison in the southern town of Estehban, the Kayhan newspaper reported.