NCRI – Cross-Party British lawmakers plan to hold a conference in the United Kingdom Parliament on Monday on the deteriorating human rights situation in Iran.
The event on October 19 is being organized by the British Parliamentary Committee for Iran Freedom.
Cross-Party members of both Houses of Parliaments and prominent human rights lawyers will discuss the underlying reasons and consequences of the alarming increase in the number of executions in Iran and Tehran’s destructive role. They will make recommendations to the UK government on what it can and should do to address the deteriorating human rights situation in Iran.
While millions around the world commemorated the World Day Against the Death Penalty on October 10, the regime in Tehran carried out 22 more executions in the three days that followed in various Iranian cities.
Panelists in the conference are expected to include: Sir David Amess MP; The Rt. Hon. the Baroness Boothroyd OM, former Speaker of the House of Commons; Keir Starmer MP; The Rt. Hon. the Lord Dholakia OBE DL, Deputy Leader of the Liberal Democrat Party; Lord Maginnis of Drumglass; Bob Blackman MP; Mark Williams MP; Dr. Matthew Offord MP; Prof. Sara Chandler, President of the Human Rights Commission of the Federation of European Bar Associations; Prof. Bill Bowring, representing the Bar Human Rights Committee of England and Wales; Dr. Tahar Boumedra, former UN human rights chief in Iraq; Dr. Sabah al-Mukhtar, President of the London-based Arab Lawyers Association; and representatives of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI).
