Press Release: Declaration by the presidency on behalf of the European Union on the execution by hanging of Reza Hejazi

The European Union categorically condemns the hanging in Isfahan on Tuesday 19 August 2008 of Reza Hejazi, convicted of a murder he was said to have committed in 2004, when he was 15 years old. It is very concerned by this news, which brings to five the number of executions in Iran since the beginning of 2008 for crimes committed when the perpetrator was a minor.