Shirin Ebadi, Iranian lawyer, Human Rights activist and Nobel Peace Prize 2003 was today in the European Council at the COHOM – Human Rights Committee – meeting in presence of Riina Kionka, Personal Representative for Human Rights of the High Representative for the EU’s CFSP Javier Solana.
In her statement she called the European Union to be more active in Iran regarding the Human Rights situation in her country. She urged the European Union to ask Iran to hold the violence and the killing and arrests of people. If Iran refuses to do that and the violence continues she urged the EU to ask its governments to recall their ambassadors from Iran with immediate effect.
