Text of statement by “In Search of Justice - The European Committee for De-listing PMOI” (ISJ):

January 7, 2009 - Five weeks have passed since the December 4 judgment of the Court of First Instance annulling the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI) listing on the EU Terror List. However, the EU Council of Ministers has continued to defy the ruling. According to the European Treaty the judgment must be implemented immediately. The judges in the European Court were angered by the fact that the EU Council had failed to implement two previous rulings. Thus it rushed through the latest judgement less than 24 hours after the December 3 Hearing in Luxembourg.  On December 17, the European Court of First Instance (CFI) rejected the Council's request for a delay until the end of the appeal process calling the request "manifestly inadmissible".

In six days: seven prisoners have been executed; three have committed suicide

NCRI - On Sunday, January 4, 2009, in a barbaric move, the mullahs’ regime hanged four people in Bandar Abbas (south) prison, and in accordance with the sentencing of a criminal Sharia judge, the regime also amputated a prisoner’s hand and leg using a guillotine.

Source: AFP
People demonstrate to ask for the removal of the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI) from the European Union's list of terrorist organizations, on January 6, 2009 in Paris. Formed in the 1960s in opposition to the rule of the US-backed shah, the PMOI, the main Iranian armed opposition group, took part in the 1979 Islamic revolution but then took up arms against the Islamic republic. Banner reads: "France has to apply the four verdicts of the European justice court and remove the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran from the European Union's list of terrorism."

NCRI – Since the start of Gaza war, the members of Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) disguised as "students" took to the streets volunteering to enter the war in Gaza.

"More than 70,000 Iranian students have so far volunteered to carry out martyrdom-seeking operations against Israel," the semi-official news agency Fars reported on Tuesday.

Source: The Associated Press

ANKARA, Turkey: Turkey was holding a suspicious shipment bound for Venezuela from Iran because it contained lab equipment capable of producing explosives, a customs official said Tuesday.

The Iranian Resistance warns about persisting arrests of dissident students in Shiraz and torture of detainees

NCRI - On January 4, Shiraz University students protested against the detention of four students of this university by the mullahs’ Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS), and clashed with the regime’s security agents, while chanting “Death to dictator,” and “Pinochet, Pinochet, Iran won’t become Chile.”

NCRI – Following the arrest of four students of Shiraz University on Saturday by the mullahs' notorious Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS), the students took to the streets to gain their release in the southern city of Shiraz.

The detained students were identified as Abdol-jalil Rezaii, Kazem Rezaii, Mohsen Zarrin Kamar, and Loghman Ghadiri Goltappeh. Officials from the MOIS avoid responding to inquiries from families of these students on Sunday.