Statement by the spokesperson of EU High Representative Catherine Ashton on the imminent execution of Zanyar Moradi and Loghman Moradi

Statement by the spokesperson of EU High Representative Catherine   Ashton on the imminent execution of Zanyar Moradi and Loghman Moradi  

source- The spokesperson of Catherine Ashton, High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and 

Security Policy and Vice President of the Commission, issued the following statement today: 

The High Representative is concerned by reports that the execution of Zanyar Moradi and Loghman 

Moradi, members of the Kurdish Komalah Party, who were sentenced to death on charges of 

murder, is imminent. She is worried by claims that the two individuals confessed under torture and 

she appeals for clemency.  

This seems to point to a disturbing consistency in the extensive use of capital punishment, as 

confirmed by the high number of executions carried out in Iran throughout 2012.  

The EU holds a strong, principled position against the death penalty. It calls on Iran, as it does on 

all states which insist on maintaining capital punishment, to halt all pending executions and to 

introduce a moratorium on the death penalty.