Addressing the issue of Iran in a meeting organized on the fringes of the Labour Party annual conference in Brighton on September 28, Andrew Mackinlay, member of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the British Parliament emphasized, among other things, the need to remove the People’s Mojahedin Organisation of Iran, a member of the NCRI coalition, from the British and the EU list of proscribed organizations. Excerpts of his speech follows:

Defense Minister Mostafa Mohammad-Najjar appointed Brig. Gen. Ahmad Vahidi, with a long record in terrorism, as Deputy Defense Minister yesterday.

Before his appointment, Vahidi headed the Ministry's Planning Directorate. Until 1998, he was the commander in chief of the Qods (Jerusalem) Force, the Islamic Revolutionary Guards' (IRGC) primary organ for extraterritorial terrorist operations. In that capacity, he planned, organized and implemented hundreds of terrorist operations against the People's Mojahedin and other dissidents across the world.

NCRI, October 2 – Horrific accounts of torture in Iranian prisons shocked participants of a meeting in Stockholm organized by the Swedish Red Cross on the occasion of 20th anniversary of foundation of center for the victims of torture.

Mostafa Naderi, a former Iranian political prisoner, explained about the torture he suffered during 12 years of imprisonment:

I was arrested in Tehran in 1981 and taken to Evin Prison simply for selling newspapers.

They blindfolded me and took me to the interrogation room, where they tied me to a bench while on my back. They took out my socks and forced them into my mouth. They then bent my legs from behind and tied them to my thighs. Then, they began flogging me with cables. It was very painful, as the pain began to affect my eyes and head.

NCRI, October 2 – Ayatollah Jalal Ganjei, Chairman of the NCRI committee on religious freedom was a guest speaker at a meeting organized on the fringe of the British Labour Party annual conference in Brighton on September 28. The following is an excerpt of his speech in this meeting:

I would like to take this opportunity to discuss the present crisis with the regime in Iran, and to emphasize that this is an issue of concern to the whole world and humanity in general.

NCRI, October 1 – On the 20th anniversary of the Swedish center for victims of torture, the Red Cross branch of Sweden held a seminar inviting members of the Iranian Resistance who have experienced severe tortures in prisons in Iran.

Mr. Behzad Naziri, a member of the NCRI Foreign Affairs Committee and Mr. Mostafa Naderi gave detailed accounts of their experience.

In his remarks, Mr. Naziri said: During your life you have certainly met numerous people tortured under different conditions. Physical as well as psychological scars of torture remains with the victim for years, or perhaps for the rest of his or her life, and he has to tolerate it in a variety of ways.”

NCRI, October 1 – In an interview with the English-language daily Khaleej Times, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, mullahs’ new president, resorted to hollow threats once again in fear of being referred to the UN Security Council for sanctions.

The daily quoted him as saying: "If Iran's case is sent to the Security Council, we will respond in many ways, for example by holding back on oil sales or limiting inspections of our nuclear facilities.

NCRI, September 30 – Marking twentieth anniversary of foundation of center for tortured refugees in Sweden, a seminar was organized by the Swedish Red Cross in Stockholm on September 28. The psychological and mental scars resulted by torture and the problems facing political refugees were the issues discussed in the seminar.

NCRI, September 30 – Ayatollah Jalal Ganjei, chairman of the NCRI committee on religious tolerance and freedom, joined a panel of British parliamentarians and jurists in a meeting on Iran to raise alarm on the threats posed by the Islamic fundamentalist regime in Iran.

The meeting which took place in Brighton on September 28 as the annual conference of the British ruling Labor Party was going on in the city, dealt with clerical regime’s meddling in Iraq and growing violations of human rights in Iran.

NCRI, September 29 - Despite brutal suppression of the Iranian people by State Security Forces and the implementation of an assortment of repressive plans, Iranian cities have been the scene of a dramatic rise in demonstrations, protests and strikes by various sectors of Iranian society in the summer. These developments demonstrate before anything else the Iranian people's utmost hatred of the mullahs' anti-human regime and their resolve to overthrow the ruling theocracy and establish democracy in Iran.