Jurists welcomed French court decision to remove restrictions on NCRI members

NCRI – On the third anniversary of June 17 attack on the offices of the National Council of Resistance of Iran by French police, the Paris court of appeals removed all the heavy restrictions imposed on Maryam Rajavi, President-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran. Lawyers defending the Iranian Resistance’s case welcomed this decision in a press release issued on Friday.

The defense lawyers described the reasons presented by the investigative magistrates to refuse the appeal as baseless, just as the whole case has been right from the beginning. "The whole case was based on one sided and bias claims and extremely suspicious witnesses who were obviously in contact with Iran’s secret services," said the statement.

The lawyers stressed that the investigative magistrates should now draw the necessary conclusions and admit to the emptiness of the file against members of the Resistance and remove prosecution orders.

"This was done three years ago to please Tehran," the statement added, "and it is now clear that it was to win commercial contracts."

"Today, no appeasement is acceptable especially after the worrying trend taken by the clerical regime over this period which was largely envisaged by Mrs. Rajavi," concluded the statement.