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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9726

27 August 2008
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) eu/iran

26/08/2008 (Agence Europe) - In a declaration published on 25 August, the French EU Council President states it is “very concerned” and “categorically condemns the hanging in Isfahan on Tuesday 19 August of Reza Hejazi, convicted of a murder he was said to have committed in 2004, when he was 15 years old”. This new sentence brings to five the number of executions of minors and of persons convicted of crimes committed when they were minors, since the beginning of the year in Iran. The...