NCRI - Iraqi national dailies Azzaman, Al-Vatan, Al-Haghaegh, Al-Iraq Al-Yowm and Assiadeh published the declaration by 12,000 Iraqi prominent jurists and lawyers calling for the removal of the PMOI from the list of terrorist organizations. In their declaration, the Iraqi lawyers expressed support for the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI) as a democratic, Muslim movement.

The signatories to the declaration including 55 Iraqi judges, bar association, Iraqi lawyers' union members, 1,500 women Lawyers, cited legal opinions by pre-eminent Iraqi and international Jurists stressing that terrorist listing of the PMOI has no legal basis.
 
In a press conference in Baghdad, the Association of Independent Jurists in Defense of Human Rights in Iraq announced that 12,000 distinguished Iraqi lawyers and jurists had signed a declaration, urging the removal of Iran's main opposition organization, the PMOI, from the list of terrorist organizations in the European Union and the US.

The declaration also stressed that the PMOI and its members have nothing to do with terrorism. With 120,000 of its members and supporters killed by the regime, the Mojahedin are the main victims of Iranian regime's terrorism.

They also reiterated that the PMOI has never interfered in Iraq's internal affairs and the claim that the organization participated in the suppression of Kurds or Shiites is a sheer lie fabricated by the Iranian regime to tarnish the image of its main opposition.