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No evidence of ill-treatment against MKO returnees

Nejat SocietyMay 2, 2009071 views

UK Parliament:Residents of the camp are free to leave at any time if they demonstrate they have the appropriate travel documentation and finance to leave the camp and take up residence either in Iran or in a third country. Voluntary repatriations to Iran have previously taken place and, we understand, without the returnees concerned being ill treated. Such reparations will continue for those who wish to do this. There is no evidence to suggest forced relocation of the residents in Iraq or elsewhere will take place.

Some sensible answers to Mojahedin claims

Nejat SocietyApril 26, 20090113 views

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what reports he has received of alleged attacks on residents in Ashraf City by members of the Iraqi secret service; and if he will make a statement… We are aware that such allegations have surfaced in the Iraqi media. We have discussed these allegations with the US, who retain a presence inside Camp Ashraf, and with the Iraqi government. We have seen no evidence to support the allegations.

UK Justice Secretary: MKO remains terrorist

Nejat SocietyFebruary 21, 2009066 views

London-Jack Straw, the British Justice Secretary, says the outlawed Mojahedin Khalq Organization (MKO) is a terrorist group from the viewpoint of his government. Straw told IRNA the MKO is a terrorist organisation and the British government is at the same position that the government of the Islamic Republic is.

UK sees MKO as terrorists despite court ruling

Nejat SocietyFebruary 21, 2009064 views

Downing Street still considers the anti-Iran Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MKO) as a terrorist group, says the British justice secretary. ..Straw said he sorely regrets the British court ruling which de-proscribed the grouplet from the country’s terror blacklist. “When I was the home secretary, I said it was a terrorist group and the parliament agreed. The difficulty is that there is an independent kind of court which can make the final decisions out of the law.

UK mindful on MEK history

Nejat SocietyFebruary 14, 2009063 views

we remain mindful of the MeK’s[PMOI/MKO] history as an organisation responsible for a number of serious terrorist attacks—it claimed responsibility for large numbers of violent attacks inside Iran for a number of years, including 96 in a three-month period in early 2001. We do not agree with its claim that it represents a credible democratic opposition in exile.

UK still views MKO as terrorist group: Miliband

Nejat SocietyFebruary 9, 2009055 views

British Foreign Secretary David Miliband made clear his country’s position on the terrorist nature of the MKO grouplet had not changed, despite the European Union’s controversial decision to remove the MKO from the terror list, IRNA reported…Miliband’s latest comments on the MKO came in the wake of earlier statements by Larijani who in his address to the Munich security confab on Friday voiced outrage over the West’s harboring of known terrorist groups, alluding to European countries providing safe haven to the MKO.

Ban on MKO chief`s entry to UK expected to remain in force

Nejat SocietyJanuary 29, 2009065 views

Head of MKO/PMOI/MEK terrorist group Maryam Rajavi is expected to remain excluded from the UK despite the EU dropping the previously outlawed group from its proscribed list…British Foreign Office said that although it does not discuss individual cases of exclusion, the government continues to believe that the MKO or MeK, as it prefers to call it, was `responsible for vile acts of terrorism over a long period`.

A debateon the terrorist listing of MKO in House of Lords

Nejat SocietyJanuary 15, 2009065 views

a partial transcript of the debate in the House of Lords on Monday on the terrorist listing of MKO..Asked By Lord Waddington:To ask Her Majesty’s Government what steps they will take to observe the latest judgment of the Court of First Instance of the European Communities concerning the People’s Mujaheddin Organisation of Iran

UK wants”partnership”not”conflict”with Iran

Nejat SocietyDecember 22, 2008053 views

Foreign Office Minister Bill Rammell denied that Britain itself was supporting terrorism by recently deproscribing the Mojahedin Khalq Organisation (MKO), which has been responsible for killing tens of thousands of Iranians, insisting it was a court decision opposed by his government…

MKO still a terrorist group, says UK’s Jack Straw

Nejat SocietySeptember 14, 2008070 views

The British government still considers that the MKO / PMOI is a terrorist group despite being recently removed from the UK’s proscribed organizations, according to Justice Secretary Jack Straw.