NCRI – Marian Harkin, an Irish Member of the European Parliament, has expressed her concerns over human rights abuses in Iran via a video released earlier this month.
Marian Harkin MEP said: “Discrimination and criminal repression against ethnic and religious minorities, arrests of critics and systematic censorship still exists [in Iran].”
Harkin was one of the 270 MEPs to sign a letter insisting that the EU condition their negotiations with Iran on improvements to the dire human rights situation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zItfuejeDh0
Harkin, a member of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe, cited the rising number of executions in Iran as a major concern; the UN calculates that Iran’s execution rate is the highest in 25 years.
She said that she approved of the “progressive” ten-point plan laid out by Maryam Rajavi, President-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, which calls for the abolition of the death penalty and for equality between men and women.
Then she spoke about the grand gathering in Paris on July 9, for all members and supporters of the Iranian Resistance. It will be attended by world leaders, policy makers, journalists and religious leaders.
She said: “I would urge as many people as possible to attend that event.”