NCRI – The European Union is deeply concerned at the human rights situation in the Iran.
In its latest statement issued on December 19, France the EU's rotary president said, "The multiple violations committed by the Iranian authorities testify to the erosion of the rights of the individual there. The European Union reiterates that such violations are unacceptable."
The statement highlighted the simultaneous execution of ten Iranians at Evin prison on November 26 and the recent refusal of the Iranian authorities to allow Mansour Ossanlou, an Iranian trade unionist sentenced to five years in prison for "acts against State security "and "anti-regime propaganda", access to the medical care which he needs.
"These practices are blatant violations of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, freely adopted and ratified by Iran, and contravene the Declaration on the Right and Responsibility of Individuals, Groups and Organs of Society to Promote and Protect Universally Recognized Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, adopted by all members of the United Nations in 1998. Resolutely committed to universal abolition of the death penalty, the European Union exhorts the Iranian authorities to put an end to death sentences and executions," the statement added.
