What is the EU stand on the human rights situation in Iran?
Human rights are an essential element of the EU’s external relations. As it does vis-à-vis other third countries, the EU takes a deep interest in the human rights situation in Iran. It has expressed its views about it on a range of occasions. All 27 EU Member States notably co-sponsored the resolution on human rights in Iran which the United Nations General Assembly’s Third Committee adopted on 21 November 2008. In this document the International Community expresses deep concern at serious human rights violations in Iran, including: torture, the continuing high incidence of executions in the absence of internationally recognised standards, persons in prisons who continue to face sentences of executions by stoning, arrests, violent repression and sentencing of women exercising their right to peaceful assembly, increasing discrimination and other human rights violations against persons belonging to religious, ethnic, linguistic or other minorities, ongoing restrictions of freedom of asse
