We believe in a free Iran and freedom of all religions and denominations
Hello; my name is Nigel Evans. I’m a conservative member of parliament from the United Kingdom and I’m also a member of the Council of Europe. The Council of Europe, the bastion of democracy, an institution that fights for human rights. And what I want to talk to you today is about the denial of human rights that exists for a lot of people who live in Iran. Since 1988 the regime has mercilessly imprisoned over a hundred and twenty thousand people, over thirty thousand people have been massacred. And indeed there have been uprisings against the regime in Iran. And the latest one was in December of last year. It started in just one town and then it soon spread, as it became organized, to over a hundred and forty cities and towns throughout the whole of Iran. And Iran has got one of the worst reputations as far as any regimes around the world are concerned. you have to look at any Amnesty International report to see how awful is the regime in the way that it treats its own people, whether you are somebody who is disabled, whether you are a woman, whether you are somebody who does not believe in the rights of the regime, in Iran somebody that perhaps wants to see somebody different being in government in Iran, Just for that, you could be detained, you could be imprisoned you could go missing and it has happened to so many people. Indeed since the uprisings we’ve seen over eight thousand people imprisoned. We’ve seen over 50 people killed. Iran has one of the largest groups of people who were executed throughout the world. Indeed last year over 50 percent of all the executions that took place, took place in Iran.
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