6.9.2022
EN
Official Journal of the European Union
C 342/289 Thursday 17 February 2022
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Calls on the Iranian authorities to immediately repeal the ‘Youthful Population and Protection of the Family’ law and to ensure access to public sexual and reproductive health services, including safe, legal, free and high-quality abortion services in all circumstances; recalls that denying women abortions constitutes a form of gender-based violence and may amount to torture or cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment; strongly condemns the threats by the Iranian authorities to impose the death penalty for abortion and calls on the Iranian authorities, in particular, to repeal this provision without delay; calls on the EU and the Member States to cooperate with the UN in closely monitoring the new ‘Youthful Population and Protection of the Family’ law, its impact on maternal deaths, and any developments concerning the application of the death penalty for abortion; 15.
Highlights that citizens of Iran, through citizen-led initiatives, are consistently calling for the abolition of the death penalty and for an end to its use against human rights defenders and its disproportionate use against minorities; supports Iranian civil society and its peaceful efforts in pursuit of human rights; 16.
Calls on Iran to allow visits by and fully cooperate with all special procedures of the UN Human Rights Council, including the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran; 17.
Urges the EU to raise human rights violations in its bilateral relations with Iran; calls on the Vice-President of the Commission / High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy to ensure that the European External Action Service continues to raise human rights matters in the context of the EU-Iran High Level Dialogue; reaffirms that respect for human rights is a core component in the development of EU-Iran relations; 18.
Welcomes the Council’s adoption of the EU Global Human Rights Sanctions Regime (EU Magnitsky Act) as an important instrument for the EU to sanction violators of human rights; calls for targeted measures to be taken, using either the current EU human rights sanctions regime against Iran or the EU Global Human Rights Sanctions Regime (EU Magnitsky Act), against Iranian officials who have committed serious human rights violations, including executions and arbitrary detentions of dual and foreign nationals in Iran, and including judges who have sentenced journalists, human rights defenders, political dissidents and activists to death; 19.
Considers that further targeted sanctions will be necessary if the Iranian authorities do not free Dr Ahmadreza Djalali, as the EU and its Member States are requesting; 20.
Underlines the destabilising role of the Iranian regime across the wider region and denounces the fact that the Iranian regime is responsible for the deaths of numerous civilians in Syria, Yemen and Iraq; 21.
Instructs its President to forward this resolution to the Council, the Commission, the Vice-President of the Commission / High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, the UN Secretary-General, the Supreme Leader and the President of the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Members of the Iranian Majles.