Source: AFP (Translation from original article in French)
STRASBOURG, 17 December 2008 (AFP) – The People's Mujahideen Organization of Iran (PMOI MEK) must be promptly removed from the list of terrorist organizations drawn up by Brussels, called Thursday in Strasbourg Maryam Rajavi, president of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI).
Speaking to the press at Parliament, Rajavi reminded that the in October the European Court of Justice had ruled that the Council's decision of 23 December 2007 on maintaing the PMOI (MEK) on the list of terrorist organizations of the European Union was made with "insufficient legal justifications".
That decision was overruled by the judges in Luxembourg but the Council had maintained PMOI in July on its list showing "new elements".
According to Mrs. Rajavi, justice has once again affirmed that resistance against the dictatorship of mullahs can not be equated with terrorism.
Speaking besides her, the conservative Spanish, Alejo Vidal-Quadras, Vice President of the European Parliament, warned against “a confrontation of executive and political systems with the judicial system of the European Union.”
"It would be natural that in such confrontations, the founding institutions are placed on the side of the judicial system," he said in a letter to President Nicolas Sarkozy, President of the European Union.
"From a legal stand point, argues the elected European, PMOI has been removed from the list of terrorist oranizations. Our political and moral interests and our principles require the Council to respect this decision."
Alejo Vidal Quadras indicated that he does not speak on his behalf but on behalf of the European Committee of In Search of Justice, supported by over 2,000 parliamentarians in Europe.