Iran executions ‘an affront to human dignity’ - EU
30/7/08
The European Union on Tuesday denounced Iran’s execution of 29 convicts at the weekend as “an affront to human dignity” and said it was deeply concerned about Tehran’s increasing use of the death penalty. Iran’s state media said the drug smugglers and other criminals were executed in Tehran’s Evin prison at dawn on Sunday, following an expanded crackdown on crime. The French EU Presidency said the 27-nation European Union, which opposes the death penalty, condemned the executions in the strongest terms. “It considers that the Iranian regime’s action of staging these executions and making them the focus of media attention is an affront to human dignity,” it said in a statement. It said the EU was deeply concerned by Iran’s increasing use of the death penalty in recent months and urged it to end the practice.
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