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Friday, 07 March 2008 |
 By: Jean-Pierre Spitzer, scientific director of the Union of European Lawyers and legal counsel to the European Movement
Source: European Voice
A case coming up for review before the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg today (6 March) should give pause for thought to anyone who values the EU’s fundamental commitment to the rule of law.
The court will examine the case of the main Iranian opposition group, which has challenged the Council of Ministers’ decision to maintain it on the EU terror list despite a ruling of the court in its favour in December 2006.
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Thursday, 06 March 2008 |
 PMOI never targeted civilians or operated outside Iran
By Joshua Rozenberg, Legal Editor
Source: The Telegraph
Iran's main opposition group has renounced violence and the courts say it poses no threat - yet the Government wants it to remain outlawed
Britain and its EU allies deserve praise for backing a third round of UN sanctions this week against Iran's nuclear ambitions.
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Monday, 25 February 2008 |
By Lord Waddington, Lord Archer and Lord Corbett
Source: International Herald Tribune
If there is one issue that has dominated discussions among policymakers on both sides of the Atlantic, it is the devilish question of how to deal with an Iranian regime that has continued to frustrate the democratic ambitions of its people while meddling in the affairs of other nations. As British policymakers, we have had our share of entanglements with the Iranian government, from the naval incident last year in which our sailors were detained, to the ongoing issues surrounding Iran's nuclear program. When it comes to Iran, we are in the same boat as the Americans.
What we find perplexing in light of our shared problem is why the U.S. government fails to take advantage of groups that seek to be helpful to the West with intelligence, information and support for Iranian pro-democracy movements. How can the United States assert that it is being tough on Iran while Washington designates Tehran's most despised enemy as a terrorist organization?
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Thursday, 21 February 2008 |
 NCRI - Members of the European Parliament's Civil Liberties Committee have criticized the European Union's mechanisms for blacklisting "terrorists" as unfair and opaque and have called for changes to the EU's system of putting people on its terror list.
"The EU lawmakers were debating a report by Dick Marty, a member of the human rights watchdog Council of Europe, which harshly criticizes the union's blacklisting practices due to a lack of transparency and legal deficiencies," EUobserver reported on Wednesday.
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Tuesday, 19 February 2008 |
 By Malcolm Fowler
Source: Global Politician
On Wednesday, January 23, 2008 the Council of Europe voted on a resolution in relation to the United Nations (UN) and European Union (EU) terror blacklists. This resolution was based on a report by Dick Marty, a Swiss investigator working for the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights of the Council of Europe. The report and the resolution in turn were a damning indictment of the way in which individuals and groups are blacklisted within the EU and UN.
The report highlighted a number of cases that were of deep concern, the most significant of which was that of the People’s Mojahedin Organisation of Iran (PMOI). The PMOI is the main Iranian opposition group, dedicated to bringing about the overthrow of the current regime by democratic means. The PMOI case has hit the headlines on a number of occasions for both its legal and political consequences.
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Tuesday, 19 February 2008 |
 By BRIAN BINLEY, a member of Parliament from the U.K. Conservative Party
LONDON, Feb. 19 (UPI) -- The issue of Iran and the threat that it poses has been argued in public by two major groups. On the one hand we have had the anti-war lobby, with the neo-cons embracing the other extreme. These arguments have gone back and forth over whether Iran has a nuclear capability, whether it is carrying out terrorist actions and whether the human-rights abuses carried out in Iran should be of concern to us in the West.
The propaganda war between the two has definitely hit full force in recent times. We have had the anti-war lobby jumping on the bandwagon in relation to the U.S. intelligence report regarding Iran's nuclear capabilities, a report that with greater analysis can be seen to contain deep flaws. While on the other hand the neo-cons' propaganda campaign has gained heat through the war of words between Washington and Tehran.
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Monday, 18 February 2008 |
By: Stefan Simons
Source: Spiegel online, February 17, 2008
Translated from German by NCR-Iran.org
UK's Home Secretary against the country's Parliamentarians: In the respected British Court of Appeal a group of MPs are in defense of alleged terrorists. Their goal: Removing the Iranian Mojahedin-e-khalq from the black list of the government.
Paris - The case before the Court of Appeal, the second highest legal authority of Great Britain, gets to the unusual confrontation stage: The Home Secretary is moving to an appellate proceeding against 35 MPs from different parties including a former Home Secretary, a former Attorney General and several Lords.
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Monday, 18 February 2008 |
Clare Dyer, legal editor
Source: The Guardian
· Retaining blacklisting perverse, says court
· MPs and peers back case for People's Mujahideen
The government is to appeal today against a court ruling, won by 35 MPs and peers, that it should remove the People's Mujahideen of Iran (PMOI), the main Iranian opposition organisation, from the list of banned terrorist organisations.
The Proscribed Organisations Appeal Commission (POAC) ruled last
November that the government's decision to keep the PMOI on the list
was "perverse", flawed and must be set aside.
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Sunday, 17 February 2008 |
 By: Christopher Booker
Source: The Sunday Telegraph
Tomorrow morning, the Lord Chief Justice, Lord Phillips, will preside over what must be the most bizarre and politically fraught case ever brought before him. Sitting with two other judges as the Court of Appeal, he will hear an application from Jacqui Smith, the Home Secretary, for leave to appeal against an order by the High Court that she and the Government must stop breaking the law - solely to appease the murderous regime in Iran which, apart from all its other crimes, is arming terrorists in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The political ramifications of this case are immense. Already it is causing considerable embarrassment to our Government, which not only misled its EU allies into an action found illegal by the EU's own courts, but has now been boxed in still further by criticism from the Council of Europe, in a near-unanimous vote of disapproval supported by the leader of the UK delegation, John Prescott.
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Wednesday, 14 November 2007 |
 NCRI - The Council of Europe's Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights in a report that was published on Monday declared that the Council of Ministers' refusal to remove People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI aka Mek) from the EU's blacklist has not only breached EU's obligations under the EC Treaty, but defied the Court of First Instance as well and the PMOI’s fundamental rights continue to be violated.
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Monday, 12 November 2007 |
Source: EUobserver
The European Union's anti-terror list violates basic human rights, a Swiss investigator working for the human rights body the Council of Europe has said.
"The present system of blacklists flouts the fundamental principles which are the basis of human rights," notes the report by Dick Marty, according to Reuters.
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Sunday, 30 September 2007 |
 NCRI - On September 25, in a seminar in Bournemouth, United Kingdom, Lord Tony Clark, the member of the House of Lords and former Leader of the British Labor Party demanded the removal of ban on People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI) and called on government of Prime Minister Gordon Brown to end the appeasement policy vis-à-vis the religious dictatorship in Iran.
Simultaneous with the Labor Party's annual meeting, the representative office of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) in Britain sponsored a seminar in Bournemouth. Tony Clark spoke in this seminar, where leaders of various organizations from the Labor party, human rights and women’s rights advocates attended.
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Thursday, 09 August 2007 |
NCRI - Association of the Independent Iraqi Jurists, in a statement,
strongly condemned al-Maliki’s remarks regarding expulsion of People's
Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI) from Iraq and described it
unlawful.
The jurists’ association stressed on the right of the PMOI's stay in
Iraq as a legitimate right recognized by international law and
conventions and general principles of human rights contained in the
Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Additionally, the PMOI members
enjoy the "Protected Persons" status under the Fourth Geneva Convention
and no one should talk about their expulsion.
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Saturday, 21 July 2007 |
 NCRI - Arc-in- Ciel, a Quarterly publication which reflects the views
of the French human right organization, "New Human Rights", in an
article published in its latest issue, described the ruling of the
Court of First Instance of European Union that annulled the decision of
the Council of European Union to put the People's Mojahedin
Organization of Iran in the terror list, as an "unprecedented judicial
victory."
Arc-in- Ciel wrote:" according to legal authorities, the history of
European Community’s legal disputes has changed dramatically after the
ruling on PMOI against the Council of the European Union. We must thank
People's Mojahedin of Iran whose struggle to free their nation has also
allowed the progress of legal ruling in Europe."
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Friday, 20 July 2007 |
 The British Parliamentary Committee for Iran Freedom
PRESS RELEASE
Parliamentarians denounce Iraqi government's threats against Iran
opposition group in Ashraf City
At a meeting of the British Parliamentary Committee for Iran Freedom at the
House of Lords on Thursday, MPs and Peers voiced concern about the recent
measures undertaken by the Iraqi government in imposing further restrictions on
Ashraf City, home to the members of the People's Mojahedin Organisation of Iran
(PMOI).
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Friday, 20 July 2007 |
 Source: The Scotsman, July 14, 2007
By: Hon Lord Waddington
Banning the PMOI prevented a legitimate organisation from fighting an oppressive regime, writes Lord Waddington
Rule of law and due process are the bedrock upon which all liberty and
justice are based. Throughout history, untold numbers of brave men and
women have paid a dear price in effort, fortune, and even life itself,
to bequeath to us the rule of law. Unfortunately, through neglect and
design, if not protected, the rule of law and all those values which it
protects and we hold dear can be undermined.
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Friday, 29 June 2007 |
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 BRUSSELS (AFP) - The European Union announced Friday that it had revised the way it compiles its "terrorist list" after the main Iranian opposition group in exile launched a legal challenge to be taken off.
The EU "has conducted a complete review of the persons and entities subject to the EU's autonomous regime on specific measures directed against certain persons and entities with a view to combatting terrorism," a statement said. |
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Friday, 29 June 2007 |
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 EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - The EU has kept Iran opposition group PMOI on its new list of terrorist entities in a controversial move likely to spark complaints from MEPs as well as Danish and Italian parliamenterians.
"Entities listed in the annex to this decision have been involved in terrorist acts," the EU's Official Journal of 29 June states, with the annex naming the "Mujahedin-e Khalq Organisation (MEK)...a.k.a...the People's Mujahidin of Iran (PMOI)." The register includes a total of 35 individuals and 30 groups and is unchanged compared to the last update in December, when the EU added members of Dutch Islamist movement Hofstadgroep and Kurdish outfit TAK. |
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Thursday, 28 June 2007 |
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 By CONSTANT BRAND
Associated Press, Brussels, Belgium -- European Union governments decided Thursday to keep an Iranian opposition group blacklisted as a terrorist organization after reviewing its demand to be removed following a recent court ruling, diplomats said.
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Thursday, 28 June 2007 |
 The French daily L’Humanité reported on Wednenday, The French League of Human Rights called for the "dismissal of case concerning the Iranian political refugees" that had been initiated at the time of June 17, 2003 "raid" in Paris against the members and sympathizers of the National Council of Resistance of Iran.
The report added: Four years after the "raid" of June 17th, 2003 ordered by the anti-terrorist section of the Public Prosecutor's Office of Paris the Human Rights League (HRL) witnesses a swamped investigation undoubtedly characterized by its strong political motivation from the very beginning and lack of legal basis .
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Wednesday, 27 June 2007 |
 NCRI - Lord Russel-Johnston, the honorary president to the Liberal group in the Council of Europe says that the exiled Iranian opposition, People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran, has been included in Europe’s terror organization’s list as a measure meant to appease the regime in Iran, Danish daily Politiken reported.
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Tuesday, 26 June 2007 |
NCRI - The French Human Rights League (HRL) in a statement today called
for an end to the inequitable pursuits of the Iranian refugees in
France. The HRL underlined the necessity of implementing the EU court
ruling on Mojahedin of Iran.
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Monday, 25 June 2007 |
 NCRI- Friends of Free Iran inter-parliamentary group in a statement
today warned against maintaining the People's Mojahedin of Iran (PMOI)
on the terror list by the Council of Ministers of Environment,
describing it as a legal catastrophe and a political scandal.
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Monday, 25 June 2007 |
 NCRI - Iranians gathered on Thursday outside the British Parliament
calling on the British government to respect the democratic rights of
the main Iranian opposition group, the People's Mojahedin Organization
of Iran (PMOI).
The rally was attended by Lord King, who assured the protestors that
their activities have brought the issue of Justice for the Mojahedin of
Iran to the attention of many in the British Parliament.
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Sunday, 24 June 2007 |
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The English version of the text
of a resolution in the Italian Parliament ( Foreign Affairs Committee) adopted
on 14 June 2007 on People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran ( PMOI).
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Saturday, 23 June 2007 |
 Interview: Bill Bowring, Professor of Law at Birkbeck College, University of London
Source: The Independent, June 21,2007
By: Nick Jackson
One of the difficulties in formulating an internationally agreed
definition of terrorism is that the term is so slippery. All the
actions carried out by terrorists are already crimes under existing
laws. What the use of the term does is to mean that these are
especially abhorrent crimes. It is mainly used as a term of abuse.
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Saturday, 23 June 2007 |
 Brussels – (Helsingin sanomat, 18 June 2007) An Iranian opposition
group PMOI claims millions for compensation from the European Union
because the union has not accepted to remove organisation from the
terrorist list as the court of European Community has decided.
“How is it possible that EU what cherish democracy despise the court
decision”, says Shahin Gobabi a member of CNRI, a branch of PMOI, which
works in France. “This is a scandal.”
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Friday, 22 June 2007 |
 By Judith Crosbie
Source: European Voice
European Voice, Vol. 13 No. 24 : EU ambassadors from the member states
are currently discussing which organisations and individuals should be
on the list. Environment ministers are expected to approve the list as
an ‘A-point’, without any discussion, on 28 June.
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Thursday, 21 June 2007 |
 Vice President of European Parliament: This Act is a Legal Embarrassment and a Political Immaturity
By: Knut Pries
Source: Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung
Brussels, Friday June 15, 2007 - It
does not make sense to say the enemy of my enemy is still my enemy. EU
is trying so hard to undermine its own laws and pressure an Iranian
opposition group financially. The EU Parliamentarians are increasingly
turning against this decision. But the governments want to repeat the
choice that has caused so much opposition. Nobody knows what the secret
services of these countries know about MEK because they basically work
undisclosed.
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Wednesday, 20 June 2007 |
By: Ole Damkjær
Source: Berlingske Tidende
Denmark, June 18, 2007 - The Iranian Resistance of
Mojahedin-e-Khalq (MEK) is not just fighting with the Mullahs regime
but is also struggling against the EU countries who are not removing
its name from the terrorist list despite a ruling by the EU Court.
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