For the Liberal group, the third largest group, Dutch MEP Marietje Schaake said that "I won my elections by criticising the government of my country" but that "young women doing the same in Iran would be arrested, beaten and raped".
Viņa uzsvēra, ka Irānā notiek cilvēka radīta katastrofa, un citēja Mārtina Lutera Kinga vārdus: „Pienāk laiks, kad klusēšana ir nodevība”.