By JOHN F. BURNS
Published: May 8, 2008
LONDON — After a seven-year legal battle, Britain’s Court of Appeal ruled on Wednesday that the British government was wrong to include an Iranian resistance group, the People’s Mujahedeen, on its list of banned terrorist groups.
Spokesmen for the group, which means People’s Holy Warriors, said the ruling appeared to […]
Iran Resistance Is Not Terrorist Group, Court Finds
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By: Christopher Booker
Source: The Sunday Telegraph
Feb. 17, 2008
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 […]
Iran Watch – November 30, 2007
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Staff and agencies
Friday November 30, 2007
Guardian Unlimited
Iran’s main opposition movement should be removed from the British government’s list of banned terrorist organisations, a court ruled today.
The decision by the Proscribed Organisations Appeal Commission (Poac) is a major victory for the People’s Mujahideen of Iran, which […]
UK court tells UK government to lift Iran opposition ban
October 30, 2007 by
Iran Focus
Selina Williams
Dow Jones Newswire
Posted: October 30, 2007
LONDON -(Dow Jones)- A U.K. court Friday ordered the U.K.’s home secretary to lift a six-year ban on Iran’s Peoples Mujahedeen Organization of Iran, which is part of a broader coalition group that forms the main opposition to the current regime in Tehran.
The PMOI, which last October […]
Iran Watch – September 26, 2007
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By Joshua Rozenberg, Legal Editor
Telegraph.co.uk
‘All our nuclear activities have been completely peaceful and transparent,” Iran’s president told the United Nations on Tuesday. But Mahmoud Ahmadinejad does not seem to have won over the doubters.
President George W Bush condemned Iran as part of an “axis of evil” in […]
