Brussels, 18/11/2011 (Agence Europe) - In a resolution adopted in Strasbourg on Thursday 17 November, the European Parliament (EP) once again urged Iran to institute a moratorium on executions and to reform its judicial process. MEPs expressed their concern at “the steadily deteriorating human rights situation in Iran”: the growing number of political prisoners, the sustained high number of executions, including of juveniles, widespread torture, unfair trials, exorbitant sums demanded for bail, and heavy restrictions on freedom of information, expression, assembly, belief, education and movement. They called on the Iranian authorities to release all political prisoners and to allow UN Special Rapporteur Ahmed Shaheed to enter the country “to address its human rights crisis”. They said, too that European companies should not supply goods, technology and services which Iran could use to control and censor information and communication flows and to track down citizens, notably human rights defenders. (CG/transl.rt)