1 Amendments of María MUÑIZ DE URQUIZA related to 2013/2152(INI)
Amendment 258 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 52
Paragraph 52
52. Expresses grave concern regarding the steadily deteriorating human rights situation in Iran, the continued repression of reformists,Welcomes the release of several prisoners of conscience in Iran, including lawyer, human rights defender and Sakharov prize winner Nasrin Sotoudeh; calls on the Iranian authorities to release all those gwrowing numberngfully arrested ofn political prisoners and prisoners of conscience, the consistently high number of executions, including of minors, the widespread tgrounds, including the three opposition leaders held under house arrest with no charges for over two years: Mehdi Karroubi, Zahra Rahnavard, and Mir Hossein Mousavi; allow the UN Special Rapporteure, the unfair trials and exorbitant sums demanded for bail, and the heavy restri on human rights in Iran to visit the country, work toward a moratorium on the death penalty, remove Internet censorship and allow free expression in Iran; notes with satisfactions on the freedom of information, expression, assembly, religion, education and movement;sumption of diplomatic contacts between Iran and the international community and expects a noticeable improvement of the human rights situation in the country as a result.