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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. <\/p>\nBRUSSELS (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. <\/p>\n
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. <\/p>\n
A total of more than 60 people and groups figure on the blacklist, including the armed Basque separatist group ETA, Sri Lanka’s Tamil Tigers and the Islamist group Hamas. <\/p>\n
Those on it are subject to an asset and funding freeze.
The register was drawn up to respect a UN Security Council resolution adopted in the wake of the September 11, 2001 attacks which demanded that countries crack down on "terror" financing. <\/p>\n
It is usually revised every six months but this had not happened, until Friday, since before a European court annulled on December 12 the listing of the People’s Mujahedeen of Iran (PMOI) in May 2002. <\/p>\n
The Court of First Instance, Europe’s second-highest tribunal, ruled that the EU had not respected the group’s right to a fair hearing. <\/p>\n
Under the review, the EU will now provide a "statement of reasons" to all those whose assets are frozen and notify them of their right to ask that the decision to list them be "reconsidered". <\/p>\n
A special working group was also set up to study listing and de-listing. <\/p>\n
PMOI still figured on the new "terrorist list" published Friday, and the Greek far-left group Revolutionary Struggle was also added to it. <\/p>\n
Founded in 1965 with the aim of replacing first the shah and then the clerical regime in Iran, PMOI has in the past operated an army inside Iran. <\/p>\n
It was the armed wing of the France-based National Council of Resistance of Iran but it renounced violence in June 2001.
Its exiled leader Maryam Rajavi lives in France and regularly visits Brussels. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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