EU urges Iran to respect right to protest, calls for immediate release of arrested demonstrators

The European Union is “concerned” by reports of deaths and violence during days-long demonstrations in Iran, calling in a statement for Tehran to exercise “maximum restraint” against the protesters.

Iranian authorities must “uphold the rights to freedom of expression, association and peaceful assembly” and “immediately” release anyone arrested for peaceful protests, a spokesman for EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas says in the statement.

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