What changed between the resolution motion and the resolution motion joint

Removed:Calls on Iran to immediately halt and abolish death sentences as well as amputations, floggings and other cruel and inhuman punishments;

Added:1. Strongly condemns the arbitrary detention, sentencing and, recently, return to prison of woman human rights defender and lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh, and calls on the authorities of the Islamic Republic of Iran to immediately and unconditionally release her, as a matter of urgency, and allow her to receive the healthcare she requires;

Removed:Calls for a UN-led international and independent inquiry into the killing of hundreds of protesters during the 2019 protests;

Added:2. Strongly condemns the execution on 12 December 2020 of French-based journalist Ruhollah Zam, editor of the Amad News Telegram channel, and on 12 September 2020 of wrestler Navid Afkari; expresses its deepest condolences to their families, friends and colleagues; calls on the EU and its Member States’ institutions to provide more effective protection to Iranian nationals residing in the EU who are subjected to harassment and threats from Iranian intelligence services;

Removed:Calls on the EU Council to raise human rights violations in its bilateral cooperation as a core component with Iran, in line with the Joint Statement agreed by the EU HR/VP and the Iranian Foreign Minister in April 2016;

Added:3. Calls on Iran to immediately halt the imminent execution of Swedish-Iranian academic Ahmadreza Djalali, release and compensate him, and stop threatening his family in Iran and Sweden; strongly condemns, furthermore, his torture, arbitrary detention and death sentence; notes that Dr Djalali was told on 24 November 2020 that the prosecution authorities had issued an order to carry out the sentence and that he was moved to solitary confinement in section 209 of Evin prison; reiterates its calls for urgent interventions by the Vice-President of the Commission / High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy (VP/HR) and EU Member States, aimed at halting any plans to execute Ahmadreza Djalali, quashing his death sentence and securing his immediate release;

Removed:Calls on the EEAS and EU Member States to fully support the laureates of the Sakharov Prize through EU and Member States diplomatic and consular representations; Is of the view that the support to laureates at risk should be enhanced on the part of EU delegations;

Added:4. Calls on all EU Member States to jointly make public statements and undertake diplomatic initiatives to monitor unfair trials and visit prisons where human rights defenders and other prisoners of conscience are being detained, including EU nationals in Iran, in line with the EU Guidelines on Human Rights Defenders;

Removed:Urges Iranian authorities to lift its censorship of online services and content; Reiterates its call for an EU-wide ban on the export, sale, update and maintenance of any form of mass surveillance technology that can be used to facilitate internal repression; Urges the Council to apply the EU Global Human Rights Sanctions Mechanism, otherwise called the “European Magnitsky Act”, in order to target Iranian officials involved in gross human rights abuses, including judges sentencing to death journalists, human rights defenders, political dissidents and activists, inter alia;

Added:5. Calls on the Government of Iran to immediately and unconditionally release the hundreds of people arbitrarily detained for peacefully exercising their rights to freedom of opinion and expression including protesters, journalists, media workers, political dissidents, artists, writers and human rights defenders, including lawyers, women’s rights defenders, labour rights activists, minority rights activists, conservationists, anti-death penalty campaigners and others including those demanding truth, justice and reparation for the mass extrajudicial executions of the 1980s; emphasises that, pending their release, the Iranian authorities must guarantee their physical and mental;

Removed:Instructs its President to forward this resolution to the Council, the Commission, the European External Action Service, the EU HR/VP, the governments and parliaments of the Member States, the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran, the President of the Islamic Republic of Iran, and the Members of the Iranian Majlis.

Added:6. Urges Iran to immediately drop all charges and lift all travel restrictions on all European-Iranian dual nationals who are subjected to arbitrary detention and other restrictive measures, such as in the cases of Fariba Adelkhah, Nahid Taghavi, Kameel Ahmady and Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe; reiterates its demand for the immediate and unconditional release of Kamran Ghaderi, Massoud Mossaheb and Morad Tahbaz, who are currently being detained in Iranian prisons, and denounces, once again, the continuing practice of imprisonment of EU-Iranian dual nationals by the Iranian judiciary following unfair trials, and their lack of access to consular support;

Added:7. Expresses concern at the physical assault and forcible transfer, on 13 December 2020, of the woman human rights defender Golrokh Iraee to Evin prison; calls for the immediate clarification of her situation and reiterates its demand for her release;

Added:8. Condemns in its strongest terms the crackdown on the rights to freedom of expression, association and peaceful assembly; urges the Iranian authorities to ensure the full implementation of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, to which it is a party, and to ensure the right of all detainees to due process and a fair trial, including the right to be represented by a lawyer of their own choosing;

Added:9. Condemns the restrictions on civic space, the use of the death penalty as a weapon of political repression, the amputations, floggings and other cruel and inhuman punishments included in Iran’s penal code, the cruel and inhuman detention conditions, confessions obtained through torture or ill-treatment and the trial of civilians before revolutionary courts; denounces the use of the death penalty as a deterrent against peaceful dissent human rights activism and the right to exercise freedom of expression; calls on the Iranian Government to declare an immediate moratorium on all pending executions with a view to the full abolition of the death penalty;

Added:10. Notes the advances made by Iranian women in the fields of education, science and research, exemplified by the fact that the majority of students in Iranian universities are women; urges the Islamic Republic of Iran to eliminate, in law and in practice, all forms of discrimination and other human rights violations against women and girls; strongly supports the Iranian women and human rights defenders who keep on defending human rights despite the difficulties and personal repercussions they are facing;

Added:11. Calls on the Iranian authorities to address all forms of discrimination against persons belonging to ethnic and religious minorities, including Christians and Baha’i, and LGBTI persons, and to immediately and unconditionally release all those imprisoned for exercising their right to freedom of religion or belief or sexual orientation;

Added:12. Calls for the establishment of a UN-led inquiry into the crimes under international law and other serious human rights violations committed during the protests of November 2019 and January 2020; urges the EU and its Member States to adopt targeted restrictive measures against the officials responsible for those abuses;

Added:13. Strongly supports the aspirations of the Iranian people who want to live in a free, stable, inclusive and democratic country which respects its national and international commitments on human rights and fundamental freedoms; calls on the Iranian authorities to ensure independent and impartial investigations into all of the deaths that occurred at these protests, into all of those suspected of bearing criminal responsibility for the killing of protesters, and into all cases of victims being subjected to ongoing enforced disappearances and extrajudicial executions; calls on the Iranian authorities, furthermore, to exhume and return the remains of the victims to their families, to identify and prosecute the perpetrators, and to provide effective remedies for the victims;

Added:14. Welcomes the adoption of the Human Rights Sanctions Mechanism, the so-called Magnitsky Act, by the Council as an important EU instrument to sanction violators of human rights; calls for targeted measures against Iranian officials who have committed serious human rights violations including the recent executions of Ruhollah Zam and Navid Afkari and the arbitrary detention of dual and foreign nationals in Iran, as well as of those involved in gross human rights abuses, including judges who have sentenced to death journalists, human rights defenders, political dissidents and activists;

Added:15. Considers that further targeted sanctions will be necessary if the Iranian authorities do not free Dr Djalali, as the EU and its Member States are requesting;

Added:16. Calls on the Council to raise human rights violations as a core component of its bilateral cooperation with Iran, in line with the Joint Statement agreed by the VP/HR and the Iranian Foreign Minister in April 2016; calls on the EEAS to continue including human rights, particularly the situation of human rights defenders, in the context of the EU-Iran High Level Dialogue and strongly calls on the Iranian authorities to halt all acts of intimidation and reprisals against human rights defenders for communicating with EU and UN officials;

Added:17. Calls on the EEAS and EU Member States to fully support the laureates of the Sakharov Prize through their diplomatic and consular representations and by establishing an internal interinstitutional task force in support of Sakharov Prize laureates who are at risk; is of the view that support for laureates at risk should be enhanced on the part of EU delegations;

Added:18. Requests that the EEAS strengthen its capabilities to counter Iranian interference and disinformation on European soil; urges the Iranian authorities to lift their censorship of online services and content and to desist from using Internet shutdowns that are incompatible with international human rights;

Added:19. Calls on the EU and its Member States to address the particular vulnerability of women human rights defenders through adequate protection measures that shield them from the specific and gendered risks they are exposed to;

Added:20. Calls on the Iranian authorities to extend a standing invitation to the visit of all Special Procedures of the UN Human Rights Council and to cooperate in a proactive manner; urges them to ensure particularly that the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran is allowed to enter the country;

Added:21. Instructs its President to forward this resolution to the Council, the Commission, the European External Action Service, the Vice-President of the Commission / High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, the governments and parliaments of the Member States, the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran, the President of the Islamic Republic of Iran, and the Members of the Iranian Majlis.