violence against civil society
Klingbeil calls for strict EU measures against Iran
03/12/2023, 08:19 am
The protests by the people of Iran against the government have been going on for months. But the government is cracking down on it. Lars Klingbeil finds clear words on this and demands that the Iranian Revolutionary Guard be put on the EU’s terror list.
SPD party leader Lars Klingbeil has called for the Iranian Revolutionary Guard to be placed on the EU terror list because of the Iranian government’s actions against the protests in the country. “The conditions for this important step must finally be made transparent. Anyone who only tries to support their own system of rule with the most brutal violence against civil society is committing terror,” Klingbeil told the newspapers of the Funke media group.
The SPD leader sharply criticized the sentence of the young Iranian Samaneh Asghari to 18 years and three months in prison and, according to the Funke media, also demanded the immediate release of the student in a letter of protest to the Iranian ambassador in Berlin. The allegations against the young woman are “unfounded,” said Klingbeil. Samaneh Asghari was arrested because, among other things, she is said to have been provocative in public as a woman without a headscarf.
Politicians show special solidarity
Klingbeil has taken on a political sponsorship for the 22-year-old. More and more German politicians have recently taken on such sponsorships for imprisoned people in Iran – such as Bundestag Vice President Katrin Göring-Eckardt and Green Party leader Ricarda Lang.
The protests in Iran were triggered by the death of 22-year-old Kurdish woman Mahsa Amini in police custody. She was arrested by the moral police in September last year because she is said to have worn her headscarf improperly. Activists allege that Amini was mistreated by the police.