Changes from resolution motion joint to adopted text

The European Parliament,

– having regard to its previous resolutions on Iran,

– having regard to Rules 150(5) and 136(4) of its Rules of Procedure,

A. whereas the Islamic Republic engages in the systematic oppression of its people through arbitrary arrests, enforced disappearances, torture, extrajudicial killings, the death penalty, sexual violence, collective punishment and inhumane detention conditions;

B. whereas estimates of the death toll during the recent protests range from several thousand to over 35 000, including women, children and elderly people; whereas EU citizens are among the victims;

C. whereas tens of thousands of arbitrary arrests have been made, with the true scale underreported; whereas detainees are held without access to lawyers, family or adequate medical care, and are subjected to torture, ill-treatment through sleep deprivation and other abuses, and coerced confessions;

D. whereas the documented acts meet the threshold for crimes against humanity;

2. Deplores the regime’s systematic use of arbitrary detention, torture, extrajudicial killings and the death penalty as instruments of repression; calls for the immediate abolition of the death penalty;

3. Calls on the regime to halt all violence against civilians, stop all executions and end the repression; demands the release of all persons in arbitrary detention, including foreign and dual nationals;

4. Urges the authorities to stop targeting doctors and healthcare workers for treating injured protesters;

5. Calls for atrocities to be independently documented by UN bodies and for evidence to be preserved for future prosecutions; stresses the need for accountability through international judicial mechanisms, including for the UN Security Council to refer Iran to the ICC;

6. Deplores the regime’s targeting of protesters, activists, journalists, human rights defenders, foreign and dual nationals, women, minorities and communities, including Kurds, Baluchis, Ahwazi Arabs, Baha’is and Christians among others; calls for the release of those detained solely for their ethnicity or religious beliefs;

7. Urges the Council and the Member States to expand targeted sanctions, including asset freezes and travel bans, against those responsible for the abuses, including IRGC members and political leaders, prosecutors, and prison and security officials, and to enforce the sanctions and prevent circumvention;

9. Condemns the oppression of women and calls for the immediate release of all women in detention, especially Nobel Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi;

10. Condemns Iranian authorities’ deliberate use of hostage diplomacy; urges the EU and its Member States to develop a counter-strategy to assist detainees’ families and prevent further hostage-taking;

11. Calls for the EU and its Member States to provide protection and humanitarian assistance to people facing a serious risk to life, and to support solutions to restore internet access;

12. Instructs its President to forward this resolution to the Council, the Commission, the VP/HR, the Member States, the UN and the Iranian authorities.