01/02/2018 (Agence Europe) – On Wednesday 31 January, the spokesperson for the European External Action Service (EEAS) stated that the death penalty sentences for crimes committed by persons below the age of 18 were "contrary to Iran’s international obligations under the International Covenant for Civil and Political Rights and the Convention on the Rights of the Child". The previous day, Ali Kazemi 22, was executed in Iran for a murder committed when he was 15 years old. In its...