Italian Lawmakers and Human Rights Advocates Demand End to Iranian Executions by Siavosh Hosseini / SOPA images
At the initiative of Naike Gruppioni, a member of the Foreign Affairs Commission of the Italian Parliament, a meeting entitled "Iran: Right to Life at Risk" (Il Diritto alla Vita in Pericolo) was held in the Sala Stampa of the Parliament. The conference addressed the recent spike in state executions following political uprisings in Iran, systematically condemning the clerical dictatorship's use of capital punishment to suppress dissent. Senator Giulio Terzi di Sant'Agata, Chairman of the European Union Policy Commission, and Antonio Stango, President of the Italian Federation for Human Rights (FIDU), delivered speeches, and a message from Senator Marco Scurria was read aloud to the attendees. Mrs. Maryam Rajavi joined the meeting online to deliver a keynote address, thanking the legislators for their solidarity, rejecting both monarchical and religious autocracy, and calling on European nations to end their silence on the executions of political prisoners. The meeting was moderated by the prominent Italian journalist Mauro Bazzucchi.
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