On Monday, December 4, Mr. Jeremy Hanley, MP, Minister of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, replied to a question by Mr. David Alton, MP from the Liberal-Democrat Party, concerning the observations of a representative of the European Union at the trial. He said: "A representative of the European Union Presidency attended two of the four sessions of the trial... But despite the fact that the trial was held in public it is not possible to say that justice was done. We are concerned that certain aspects of the procedure did not conform to generally accepted international standards. Examples are the publicity given to the apparent confessions made by the accused before the trial, and the impression that it was stage-managed."
Previously, the British Parliamentary Human Rights Group, the Middle East Concern and many other human rights groups singled out the religious, terrorist dictatorship ruling Iran as being responsible for the murder of the Christian priests.
In July 1994, Mr. Massoud Rajavi, the President of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, demanded that the women in question be sent to the Vatican, where this issue could be addressed in the presence of the representatives of Pope John Paul II, international criminologists and representatives from the Iranian Resistance.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran - Paris December 6, 1995
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