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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10307
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) ep/iran

MEPs want human rights sanctions to be issued

Brussels, 02/02/2011 (Agence Europe) - The European Parliament's foreign affairs committee strongly condemned the execution of Zahra Bahrami, a Dutch-Iranian national, in Tehran on 29 January and is calling for the EU to impose sanctions against all politicians and civil servants working for the Iranian regime involved in human rights violations. EU-Iran relations and the issuing of new EU sanctions should not only cover the nuclear programme, but also human rights violations since the...

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