04/11/2008 (Agence Europe) - In a declaration published on Monday 3 November, the EU welcomes the fact that the Iranian authorities had issued a circular banning executions of persons who were minors at the time of the crime for which they were condemned. The EU welcomes that “gesture” but urges the Iranian authorities to “ban all cases of execution of persons who were minors at the time of the crime, whatever their age when they were tried and without artificially excluding cases of...