WHEN: Wednesday 15 April at 14.30 CET.

WHERE: Room 3C50 in the European Parliament’s SPAAK building in Brussels.

The debate is organised by the European Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee in association with the delegation for relations with Iran and will feature interventions from representatives from Iranian democratic parties as well as democracy advocates. Guests expected to address MEPs are:

• Shirin Ebadi, Sakharov and Nobel Peace Prize laureate (online)
• Mustafa Hijri (leader of the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan (PDKI))
• Abdullah Mohtadi (leader and secretary general of Komala Party of Iranian Kurdistan)
• Saeed Bashirtash (leader of the political organisation the 7 Aban Front)
• Artist and journalist Sanaz Behzadi (working with the Association for the Promotion of Open Society (APOS)).

You can watch the debate live here.

Media accreditation

Journalists already accredited to the European Parliament can attend the meeting in person. For media representatives…