I am here today, representing the International Committee In Search of Justice (ISJ) which we formed in 2008 when I was vice-president of the European Parliament.
Some 2000 people have been executed under President Rouhani in the
past two years, more than in any similar period in the past 25 years. A young
Kurdish political prisoner, Behrouz Alkhani was executed recently and the dead
body of Shahrokh Zamani, another political prisoner was found in his cell last
week.
The executions have escalated especially in the month following the
nuclear deal with Iran. It seems that the recent nuclear deal and the absence
of absolutely any public condemnation of human rights violations by the
European governments, have emboldened Iran to move more quickly to try to
annihilate its opponents both inside Iran and also those exiled in neighbouring
Iraq.
