The French National Assembly approved, this Monday, November 28, 2022, a resolution condemning in particular the restriction of the freedoms and rights of women in Iran. The text was adopted unanimously by the participants.
A member of the French presidential majority (Renaissance), the deputy Hadrien Ghomi, himself a descendant of Iranians, had asked that ” a strong message on the situation in the Islamic Republic of Iran.
It was heard, the text he was defending garnering the vote of all of the 149 deputies participating in the vote on Monday, to the applause of the entire hemicycle, all sides combined.
Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna referred in her speech to the slogan chanted in the protests in Iran: “ women, life, freedom “. She lamented the more than 400 lives cut “.
A situation which command to act, with responsibility “, she pleaded. ” New sanctions are in preparation for the next meeting of European Foreign Ministers on 12 December.
“Thousands of Iranian men and women have been arrested, […] imprisoned because they wanted to live free”, deplores @MinColonna. “It is the repression that falls, relentless, disproportionate.”
It again calls for the release of the 7 French people detained in Iran.#DirectAN pic.twitter.com/OD6vaT1vpe—LCP (@LCP) November 28, 2022
The resolution passed today calls for the immediate release of French nationals arbitrarily detained “, seven in number, ” condemns in the strongest terms the brutal and widespread repression “.
This repression falls, specifies the text, on ” non-violent protesters “. It is denounced ” the use of torture “. The Assembly ” affirms its support for the Iranian people in their aspiration to democracy and respect for their rights and fundamental freedoms “.
Iran is the scene of a protest movement sparked on September 16 by the death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Iranian Kurd arrested by the morality police for breaking the regime’s strict dress code.
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For the Tehran authorities, these protests are ” riots », encouraged by the West.
With agencies