Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
I want to thank and welcome Dr. Ebadi for coming back here to our committee. It's a great honour for all of us.
We have been studying for over a year the situation of human rights in Iran, and we have a report that we hope will be made public soon. Certainly what we've heard from testimonies of witnesses throughout the last year have been extremely disturbing, specifically, as you mentioned, the execution of minors. Iran does have one of the highest records in terms of executions of both minors and adults. The death penalty is still very widely used there. There's the imprisonment of journalists, as you mentioned, and also what has taken place since the last presidential election where there's been a series of arrests, particularly of young people, protesters, but also of opposition leaders.
I want to know if you can give us a perspective. Maybe you can help us, both on the issue of prisoners and if you know of the number of political prisoners there might be. In terms of the parliamentary legislature that's taking place, are there any allies that you can reach out to that maybe would also help out, or have all those voices of dissent all been silenced since the last election?