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Nejat Society Visits Geneva With Camp Ashraf Rescue Plan

Nejat SocietySeptember 18, 20080158 views

A delegation from Nejat Society in Iran is in Geneva this week to participate in sessions of the United Nations Human Rights Council and to meet with delegations from other international human rights organizations….Nejat Society wants every individual person in Camp Ashraf to be given the opportunity to decide for themselves – without pressure or interference from MKO / PMOI personnel – whether they want to continue wearing military uniform, or whether they want to take off their military uniform and renounce violence.

EU keeps MKO on banned list

Nejat SocietyJuly 21, 2008086 views

The EU, in a decision slipped out without fanfare, said it saw no grounds for amending the list of 48 groups subject to asset freezes and other sanctions in Europe.”Consequently, the Council has decided to maintain those persons, groups and entities on the list,”the decision published in its Official Journal said.

British Govenment: Mojahedin Khalq Remain in the List of Terrorism

Nejat SocietyDecember 2, 2007086 views

The People’s Mujahideen Organisation of Iran, a resistance group, said it was a”magnificent victory for justice”, after a six-year battle to annul the listing. But Britain’s government said it was”disappointed”and it intended to appeal. The group will stay on the proscribed list until the matter is resolved.

US court declines to review anti-terrorism law

Nejat SocietyJanuary 12, 2007089 views

Without comment, the justices denied the appeal by the Los Angeles area residents accused of soliciting money for the Mujahedin-e Khalq, which has carried the designation since 1977. Only the groups themselves may seek judicial review in challenging such a designation, according to the 1996 anti-terrorism law. …

Paris Appeals Court’s Ruling on MKO

Nejat SocietyJune 21, 2006074 views

A French appeals court on Friday eased restrictions on an Iranian exiled opposition group with links to an armed guerrilla movement which is listed as a terrorist group by the United States.

Chalabi says Iraq must tackle foreign militants

Nejat SocietyNovember 13, 2005069 views

Iraq must do more to stop the country being used as a base for foreign militants seeking to destabilise its neighbours, Deputy Prime Minister Ahmad Chalabi said in comments published on Monday…Chalabi said Britain raised tension in the area by accusing Iran of helping Iraq militants to plant roadside bombs which killed British troops. He added that Iran also inflamed the situation with allegations of British backing for militant Arab separatists in south-west Iran, according to the FT report.

Guns and bombs are not speech

Nejat SocietyNovember 10, 2005075 views

The United States can designate foreign organizations as terrorist groups and bar Americans from financially backing them….The ruling by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals was made in a case involving people who raised money in California for Mujahedin-e Khalq, or MEK, an Iranian opposition group designated as a terrorist organization by the U.S. government since 1997.

US can call foreign groups terrorists, court says

Nejat SocietyOctober 24, 2005066 views

“Leaving the determination of whether a group is a ‘foreign terrorist organization’ to the executive branch … is both a reasonable and a constitutional way to make such determinations,”Judge Andrew Kleinfeld wrote for a three-judge panel. …. The ruling by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals was made in a case involving people who raised money in California for Mujahedin-e Khalq, or MEK,