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MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION (2026/2733(RSP))

On repression and execution of protesters, dissidents, political prisoners and religious minorities in Iran

B-10-2026-0265

on behalf of the PPE Group · Rapporteur: Sebastião Bugalho, Tomáš Zdechovský, Loucas Fourlas, Isabel WiselerLima, Željana Zovko, Tomas Tobé, Ingeborg Ter Laak, Antonio LópezIstúriz White, Andrey Kovatchev, Danuše Nerudová, Miriam Lexmann, Davor Ivo Stier, Wouter Beke, Michał Wawrykiewicz, Łukasz Kohut, Jan Farský, Vangelis Meimarakis, Liudas Mažylis, Inese Vaidere, Loránt Vincze

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This resolution condemns Iran's repression of protesters, dissidents, political prisoners and religious minorities, and calls for an end to violence, executions and arbitrary detention. It denounces the targeting of religious minorities, especially Baha'is, and urges the Council and Member States to expand sanctions against those responsible.

Key points

  1. Condemns the regime's systematic repression and use of arbitrary detention, torture, extrajudicial killings and the death penalty against protesters, dissidents, political prisoners and religious minorities.
  2. Calls on the Iranian regime to halt violence against civilians, suspend all executions, end repression, release all arbitrarily detained individuals, and abolish the death penalty.
  3. Recalls the killing of unarmed protesters, arbitrary arrests, enforced disappearances, denial of medical care and suppression of peaceful assemblies, with estimates of over 30,000 victims in January demonstrations.
  4. Condemns the unprecedented rise in executions and systematic targeting of religious minorities, especially the Baha'i community, through violence, defamation, home raids, desecration of burial sites, economic coercion, surveillance and denial of higher education.
  5. Highlights the arrests of Peyvand and Borna Naimi as examples of repression, deplores their detention on unsubstantiated capital charges and mistreatment, and calls for their release along with all unjustly imprisoned.
  6. Condemns the targeted oppression of women as part of a broader pattern of intimidation and harassment.
  7. Urges the Council and Member States to expand targeted sanctions against all those responsible for violence and systematic abuses.

Who is affected

  • Iranian protesters, dissidents, political prisoners and religious minorities, especially Christians, Baha'is, Kurds and Baluchis.
  • The Baha'i community in Iran, facing persecution and second-class citizenship.
  • Peyvand and Borna Naimi, detained Baha'is facing possible death sentences.

Figures and deadlines

  • over 30.000 victims following demonstrations in January