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MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on the case of Ahmadreza Djalali in Iran

6.7.2021 - (2021/2785(RSP))

with request for inclusion in the agenda for a debate on cases of breaches of human rights, democracy and the rule of law
pursuant to Rule 144 of the Rules of Procedure

Hilde Vautmans, Petras Auštrevičius, Izaskun Bilbao Barandica, Dita Charanzová, Olivier Chastel, Vlad Gheorghe, Klemen Grošelj, Bernard Guetta, Svenja Hahn, Karin Karlsbro, Ilhan Kyuchyuk, Nathalie Loiseau, Karen Melchior, Frédérique Ries, María Soraya Rodríguez Ramos, Michal Šimečka, Nicolae Ştefănuță, Ramona Strugariu
on behalf of the Renew Group

See also joint motion for a resolution RC-B9-0382/2021

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B9‑0386/2021

European Parliament resolution on the case of Ahmadreza Djalali in Iran

(2021/2785(RSP))

The European Parliament,

  having regard to its previous resolutions, in particular that of 17 December 2020 on Iran, in particular the case of 2012 Sakharov Prize Laureate Nasrin Sotoudeh, of 17 September 2019 on the situation of women’s rights defenders and imprisoned EU dual nationals, of 13 December 2018 on Iran, notably the case of Nasrin Sotoudeh;

 

  having regard to the statement on Iran of 21 March 2021 made by the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights requesting the immediate release of Dr. Ahmadreza Djalali, of 25 November 2020 calling on Iran to halt his execution, and the Opinion of its Working Group on Arbitrary Detention of November 2017;

 

  having regard to the statement of the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iran of 26 October 2020 urging accountability for violent protest crackdowns and his report of 21 July 2020 on the situation of human rights in Iran;

 

  Having regard to the 5th EU - Iran High Level Dialogue of 9 December 2020;

 

  having regard to the EU Guidelines on the Death Penalty, on Torture, on Freedom of Expression and on Human Rights Defenders,

 

  having regard to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, to which Iran is a party, and the safeguards against torture and arbitrary detention of the Iranian Constitution,

 

-  having regard to rule 144(5) and 132(4) of its Rules of Procedure,

 

 

  1. Whereas the EU and its Member States have continuously engaged in diplomatic talks to improve relations with Iran, leading to the adoption on 18 October 2015 of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA); whereas the EU repeatedly expressed unwavering support for the preservation of the agreement despite the former US administration's decision; whereas the EU remains committed to improving relations under certain conditions ; whereas respecting human rights is an essential component to further develop these relations;

 

  1. Whereas Iranian-Swedish Dr. Ahmadreza Djalali, specialized in emergency medicine, scholar at Brussels’ VUB University and Italy’s Universita degli Studi del Piemonte Orientale, was arrested on 24 April 2016 by Iranian security forces; whereas he was sentenced to death on spurious espionage charges in October 2017 following a grossly unfair trail based on a forced confession extracted under torture; whereas the sentence was upheld by Iran's Supreme Court on 17 June 2018; whereas in a letter he wrote from Evin prison in Tehran, he stated he was imprisoned during a trip to Iran for refusing to spy against European institutions; whereas he was informed by the prosecution office on 24 November 2020 that his execution was imminent and was then transferred to solitary confinement for over 100 days until April 2021, after which he was transferred to the public ward; whereas he has been denied visits and phone calls with his family in Sweden; whereas his death sentence has been left unchanged since;

 

  1. Whereas Dr. Ahmedreza Djalali's health condition is critical following months of prolonged solitary confinement; Whereas he has been denied medical care from outside of prison since 2016 and forced to remain under bright lights continuously; whereas his physical and psychological condition has severely degraded since;

 

  1. Whereas Iran has been active in hostage-taking and imprisonment of foreign nationals inside Iran and Iranian nationals abroad, in order to blackmail, extract concessions from or exert pressure on foreign governments; Whereas at least a dozen EU nationals are arbitrarily detained in Iran; whereas French-Iranian academic Fariba Adelkhah, research director at Sciences Po Paris, has been arbitrarily detained since June 2019 at Evin prison, and held under house arrest since October 2020; whereas French photographer Benjamin Brière has been arbitrarily detained since 26 May 2020 at Mashhad prison and faces espionage charges since 30 May 2021; whereas German-Iranian national Nahid Taghavi has been arbitrarily detained since October 2020 at Evin prison under dubious national security charges;

 

  1. Whereas Iran is also arbitrarily detaining hundreds of its own people in dire conditions; whereas courts, particularly those with jurisdiction over vaguely defined crimes of national security, often do not confer the right to a fair trial and restrict legal counselling and deny visits from consular authorities, UN and humanitarian organisations; whereas sentences are often based on unsubstantiated claims of threat to national security and espionage; whereas there are strong concerns over the independence of Iran's judicial system; whereas Iranian authorities have not investigated allegations of torture and other serious violations of detainees rights;

 

  1. Whereas Iran has the world's highest percentage of executions per inhabitant; whereas the Chief Justice of Iran, Ebrahim Raisi, will become Iran's President on August 3, 2021;

 

 

 

  1. Calls on Iran to immediately halt the imminent execution of Swedish-Iranian academic Dr. Ahmadreza Djalali, pardon and release him unconditionally and allow him to return to his family in Sweden; firmly condemns the fact he has been tortured, arbitrarily detained and sentenced to death on unsubstantiated charges as documented in the 2017 Opinion of the UN Human Rights Council's Working Group on Arbitrary Detention; pending the above, urges Iran to immediately provide him with access to his family and lawyer as well as to protect him from further ill-treatment;

 

  1. Deplores Iran's use of arbitrary detention and the death penalty against EU, UK and other nationals for political goals; Urges EU Member States to publicly condemn Iran's sham trials and death sentences against EU nationals, as well as its policy of hostage-taking to extract political concessions; insists that stronger public statements as well as diplomatic initiatives are urgent in order to actively monitor court hearings and visit EU nationals detained in Iran;

 

  1. Urges Iran to immediately drop all charges against Dr. Ahmadreza Djalali as well as all arbitrarily detained EU nationals, such as German national Nahid Taghavi, French nationals Benjamin Brière and Fariba Adelkhah who remains under travel ban, Austrian nationals Kamran Ghaderi and Massoud Mossaheb; as well as UK nationals Morad Tahbaz and Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe who remains under house arrest;
  2. Deeply regrets the fact that since the European Parliament's resolution of 17 December 2020 neither the EU Delegation nor any EU Member State managed to visit EU nationals arbitrarily detained in Iranian prisons, including Dr. Djalali;

 

  1. Calls on the Council to consider freezing the assets of Iranian regime officials and entities involved in the arbitrary detention and sentencing to death of EU nationals, using the current EU human rights sanctions regime on Iran or the EU's Global Human Rights Sanctions Regime (EU Magnitsky Act);
  2. Welcomes the addition, following their role in the killing of at least 303 protesters in 2019, of eight Iranian individuals and entities on 12 April 2021 to the EU sanctions regime, with asset freezes and travel bans on the head of Iran's Revolutionary Guards Hossein Salami, on militia commanders, on police chiefs as well as on three prisons; Notes it is the first time the EU takes such a decision since 2013;

 

  1. Reiterates its strongest opposition to the death penalty in all circumstances and that no moral, legal or religious justification may be used; recalls that it runs against human dignity and constitutes an inhumane and cruel punishment with irreversible consequences, including in the event of judicial errors;
  2. Calls on Iran to also release the hundreds of political prisoners arbitrarily detained simply for exercising their fundamental rights to freedoms of expression, belief, association and publication, peaceful assembly and media freedom; Calls on Iran to effectively investigate officials responsible for serious human rights violations including the use of excessive and lethal force against protesters;
  3. Urges the EU Council to raise human rights violations in its bilateral relations with Iran, in line with the Joint Statement agreed by the EU HR/VP and the Iranian Foreign Minister of April 2016; calls on the EEAS to continue to raise human rights matters, in the context of the EU-Iran High Level Dialogue;

 

  1. Instructs its President to forward this resolution to the Council, the European Commission, the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy / Vice-President of the European Commission, the governments and parliaments of the Member States, the UN Secretary General, the UN Human Rights Council, the Supreme Leader and the President of the Islamic Republic of Iran, and the Members of Iran's Majlis.

 

 

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