Resolution on the increasing and systematic repression of women in Iran

The European Parliament adopted by 562 votes to 2, with 30 abstentions, a resolution on the increasing and systematic repression of women in Iran.

The text adopted in plenary was tabled by the EPP, S&D, ECR, Renew, Greens/EFA groups and Members.

Members strongly condemned the increasing and systematic repression of women in Iran and deplored the fact that authorities detained Ahoo Daryaei, who removed her clothing in protest, labelling her ‘mentally unfit’, and committed her to a psychiatric facility. The believe that the repression of politically defiant women through psychiatric confinement is an act of torture.

Parliament called on the Iranian authorities to repeal all legislation discriminating against women and girls and to urgently abolish the ‘morality’ police and all other repressive agencies. It also called for the immediate and unconditional release of all women’s rights defenders and victims of arbitrary detention and condemned the persecution of ethnic and religious minorities in Iran.

The Council is called on to designate the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist organisation.

Lastly, the Iranian Government is urged to grant unrestricted access to the UN Fact-Finding Mission and the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iran.

Text adopted by Parliament, single reading