Veronika Vrecionová MEP addressed a webinar by European lawmakers on October 7, 2020, on the human rights situation in Iran.
Online Conference held under title, “Iran’s Ongoing Crimes Against Humanity, EU’s political and moral obligations”. The online event was on October 7, 2020. Dozens of members of the European Parliament attended and spoke at the conference.
MEPs made their remarks in order to condemn the horrific human rights violations witnessed on a daily basis across Iran. In addition, MEPs called on the European Union to fulfill its moral and political obligations in the face of human rights violations in Iran. They called for a firm policy by the European Union against the mullah regime in Iran. Also, they pointed out, It is high time to stand alongside the Iranian people and support their justified aspirations for a free, democratic, and non-nuclear Iran.
Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, the President-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran(NCRI), was the keynote speaker at this conference. Her message welcomed as a democratic solution to Iran’s future. Mrs. Rajavi’s ten-point plan has widespread support from the majority of MEPs for a long time.
Veronika Vrecionová, MEP from Czech Republic
Thank you for inviting me to this conference. I am glad to be here even during these strange times of COVID crisis. We can’t forget people who are facing much more worse situation than the Coronavirus. Thousands of death sentences are executed every year.
Most of these sentences are abused in a non-democratic country like China and Iran. We should remind this medieval, unjust, cruel practice not only on the occasion of the birthday against death penalty, but all the time, and it should be task for us, MEPs.
As we speak about Iran, we were all witnesses of the execution of Iranian famous wrestler, Navid Afkari. He was one of many who were sentenced to this based on false international accusations and torture. Other prisoners, men, women, even children are not famous with international attention, but their lives have no less meaning and their suffering is the same. Iranian vicious practice doesn’t have negative impact only on the national level, but the spread of hatred, terrorism, and violent propaganda is like a sickness that is spreading in the area and beyond.
Personally, as a member of European Parliament, I am therefore ready to show my support as I have done many times before to Iranian people who want freedom, who denounce violence, who want justice in the country, and who want to live in peace.
I would like to thank friends of free Iran and to the President, Mrs. Rajavi, for organizing this conference not only to commemorate people who lost their lives too soon, but also to speak up about the terrible practice of Iranian Government to show support to victims of this horrible regime and to call for the release of prisoners who are held captive without a fair trial.
Thank you again for organizing this conference and I hope to see you next time personally. Have a nice day.
