Erklärung der Präsidentschaft des Rates der Europäischen Union zur Schließung des Büros des "Zentrums zur Verteidigung der Menschenrechte" in Iran
- On: 22.12.2008
While the world has just celebrated the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Presidency of the Council of the European Union vigorously condemns the closure by Iranian police of the Human Rights Defenders Centre led by the lawyer and 2003 Nobel laureate Shirin Ebadi.
The Presidency of the Council of the European Union calls on the Iranian authorities to uphold its international human rights commitments, and more specifically the right of peaceful assembly enshrined by the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights Iran signed and ratified by Iran. It also calls on Iran to authorise the re-opening of the Human Rights Defenders Centre and to grant it the legal status it has sought for many years.
- Updated: 23.12.2008
