06/08/2009 (Agence Europe) - On Thursday 6 August, the Swedish Presidency, speaking on behalf of the European Union, condemned the recent hanging of 24 people in Iran, in one of the country's largest mass executions. The Presidency says it is “concerned about the continued large-scale use of the death penalty in Iran, including the repeated incidence of collective executions during the past month” and repeats “the EU's longstanding opposition to the death penalty in all...