NCRI – The mullahs' inhuman regime on Tuesday hanged Beham Zare for the alleged crime committed when he was 15, according to his attorney.

Despite much international appeals to save his life, the young man was executed in Adel Abad prison in the southern city of Shiraz.

France as the current EU rotary president issued a statement on Monday condemning the hanging of another juvenile, Reza Hejazi, on August 19 by the Iranian regime.

"The European Union 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. It is very concerned by this news, which brings to five the number of executions in Iran since the beginning of this year for crimes committed when the perpetrator was a minor," the EU statement firmly said.

According to rights groups there are at least 114 youths facing gallows for the crimes allegedly committed when they were minors. The youngest is a 13-year-old boy named Ahmad Nowroozi sentenced to death by the mullahs' judiciary three years ago in the southeastern province of Sistan and Baluchistan.