Shirin EBADI, Iranian Nobel Peace laureate meets with Hans-Gert PÖTTERING, EP President in the European Parliament in Brussels.

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PÖTTERING, Hans-Gert (EPP, DE)

EBADI, Shirin (IR)

Hans-Gert PÖTTERING, EP President, meets with Shirin EBADI, Iranian Nobel Peace laureate: meeting and extracts from the press point

Arrival of Shirin EBADI, Nobel Peace laureate to the EP President Premises

Greetings by EP President Hans-Gert P&Ouml;TTERING, shaking hands

SOUNDBITE (Persian/Farsi), Shirin EBADI, I appeal to the international community to ask to Iranian government to stop the violence and to listen to its people

SOUNDBITE (Persian/Farsi), Shirin EBADI, I asked the UN Secretary General to send a special envoy to Iran, and today I have made the same request to the European Parliament

SOUNDBITE (Persian/Farsi), Shirin EBADI, My point is that according to the Constitution of the Iranian Republic itself, people have the right to take part in peaceful gatherings and peaceful demonstrations, and that's what they did, so my question is why did they shot these people when they are exercising their right?

SOUNDBITE (Persian/Farsi), Shirin EBADI, she asks for new elections to be held in Iran under the supervisions of international organisations such as the UN

SOUNDBITE (English), Hans-Gert P&#214;TTERING, EP President, we are demanding from the regime in Iran to stop violence and to allow the demonstrators to demonstrate; the behaviour of the regime now is for me an indication that there has been a massive fraud in the elections; if the elections would have been free the regime would not have any situation to fear something

SOUNDBITE (English), Hans-Gert P&Ouml;TTERING, EP President, I will make the proposal to send a delegation of the EP as soon as possible to Iran and I would be ready myself as President of the EP to lead such delegation