In light of the alarming targeting of women in Iran, we, Members of Parliament and Senators from across Europe, express our profound dismay at an escalation in the attacks against Baha’i women who face dual persecution, as women and as Baha’is. 

The recent surge in attacks against Baha'i women is evidenced by the fact that they currently comprise two-thirds of Baha’i prisoners. Additionally, 72 out of the 93 Baha'is summoned to court since early March are women. This escalation is utterly unacceptable and represents a distressing trend of hostilities against a community that has faced systematic persecution since 1979, a repression that Human Rights Watch, in their recent report The Boot on My Neck, has stated amounts to the crime against humanity of persecution.

We urgently call upon the Iranian authorities to immediately halt the persecution of Baha'is, release all Baha'i prisoners, and ensure the protection of their full spectrum of human rights. These rights include the rights to liberty, employment, freedom of association and expression, property, education, and the right of burial. These fundamental rights must be upheld without any form of discrimination or prejudice.

 

Signatory Members of Parliament (MPs) and Senators:

Teslem Ándala Ubbi, MP, Spain

Karl-Arthur Arlamovsky, MP, Austria

Petra Bayr, MP, Austria

Júlia Boada Danés, MP, Spain

Aitor Esteban Bravo, MP Spain

Meri Disoski, MP, Austria

Ondrej Dostal, MP, Slovakia

Helmut Brandstätter, MP, Austria

Maros Caučík,MP, Slovakia

Cathal Crowe, MP, Ireland

Faika El-Nagashi, MP, Austria

Martin Engelberg, MP, Austria

Ewa Ernst-Dziedzic, MP, Austria

Aurora Floridia, Senator, Italy

Peter Heidt, MP, Germany

Hans Stefan Hintner, MP, Austria

Zora Jaurova,MP, Slovakia

Beáta Jurík,MP, Slovakia

Kadir Kasirga, MP, Sweden

Farah Karimi, MP, Netherlands

Stefan Kiss,MP, Slovakia

Dana Kleinert, MP, Slovakia

Ingrid Kosová,MP, Slovakia

Stephanie Krisper, MP, Austria

Gudrun Kugler, MP, Austria

Robert Laimer, MP, Austria

Francesca La Marca, Senator, Italy

Vladimir Ledecky, MP, Slovakia

Max Lucks, MP, Germany

Vladimira Marcinkova, MP, Slovakia

František Mikloško, MP, Slovakia

Paul Murphy, MP, Ireland

Ged Nash, MP, Ireland

Joe O’Brien, MP, Ireland

Federica Onori, MP, Italy

Pauline O'Reilly, Senator, Ireland

Marco Padovani, MP, Italy

Simona Petrík,MP, Slovakia

Lucia Plaváková,MP, Slovakia

Ondrej Prostredník,MP, Slovakia

Lia Quartapelle Procopio, MP, Italy

Michel Reimon, MP, Austria

Michal Sabo,MP, Slovakia

Agustin Santos Maraver, MP, Spain

Werner Saxinger, MP, Austria

Brid Smith, MP, Ireland

Luigi Spagnolli, Senator, Italy

Ivan Štefunko,MP, Slovakia

Harald Troch, MP, Austria

Caspar Veldkamp, MP, Netherlands

Violet-Anne Wynne, MP, Ireland