Conference

 

IRAN AFTER THE ELECTIONS

29 June 2005

European Parliament

Green/EFA Group

 

9:00-9:15        Welcome and opening

Angelika Beer, President of the Iran Delegation (V/EFA, Germany)

 

9:15-10:30      Presidential Elections in Iran: an evaluation

 

Moderator:  Monica Frassoni President of the Green/EFA Group (V/EFA, Italy)

 

Panel:          Ali-Reza Nourizadeh (Journalist, UK)

 

Firuseh Nahavandi (Director of the Department of Sociology Université Libre, Belgium)

 

                        Sadegh Saba (Journalist, UK) - to be confirmed

 

                        Mehdi - Khanbaba Tehrani(Politologue, Germany)

 

 

Public Debate

 

 

10:30-12:30    Human Rights

 

Moderator:   Hélène Flautre President of the European Parliament Subcommittee on Human Rights (V/EFA, France)

 

Panel:          Shirin Ebadi (Lawyer, Nobel price winner 2003, Iran) - to be confirmed

Simin Behbahani (Writer, Carl-von-Ossietzky-Medaille 1999, Human/Women's rights activist, Iran)

 

Ali-Ashraf Darvishian (Co-President of the Iranian Writers' Association, Iran)

 

Bianca Jagger (Human rights advocate, Right Livelihood Winner 2004, USA)

 

Karim Lahidji (Vice-President of the FIDH and President of the LDDHI, France)

Azadeh Kian-Thiébaut (Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Paris VIII and a Researcher at Monde Iranien, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France).

Public Debate

 

Lunch Break and Press Conference

 

14:30-16:15    Religion and Government

 

Moderator:   Simon Coveney European Parliament Rapporteur on Human Rights
2005 (PPE, Ireland) - to be confirmed

 

Panel:          Homa Nategh (History Professor, University of Paris III, France)

Omid Nouripour (Bureau Member of  Bündnis 90/Grüne, Germany)

 

Mehrdad Darvishpour (Sociology Professor, University of Stockholm, Sweden)

 

Esmail Khoi (Philosopher and Founder of the Iranian Writers’ Association, UK)

 

Aramesh Doustdar(Philosopher, Germany)

 

Public Debate

                       

16:15-18:00    EU-Iran Relations: The future

 

Moderator:   Angelika Beer

 

Panel:          Benita Ferrero-Waldner (Commissioner of Foreign Affairs)

 

                        Robert Cooper (Director-General for Common Foreign and Security Policy, Council of the European Union)

 

                        Farah Karimi (Member of Parliament, GroenLinks, Netherlands)

 

Hedayat Matin-Daftari (Jurist, Political Activist, France)

 

Youssef Molaie (Professor of International Law, University of Teheran, Iran)

Public Debate

 

Exhibition of the work of comic creator Marjane Satrapi (Persepolis)