The Washington Post, June 23, 2008- British lawmakers formally removed an Iranian opposition group from the U.K.’s list of banned terror groups on Monday, after a seven-year campaign by the organization.
Legislators approved the decision of the Court of Appeal, which ruled in May that the People’s Mujahedeen of Iran should no longer be listed as a proscribed group.
The decision gives the group more freedom to organize and raise money in Britain.
’After so many years of waiting, so many years of campaigning, so many setbacks and frustrations, at last our government has seen the light,’ said Baroness Angela Harris, a House of Lords peer who backed the move.
Supporters of the PMOI said they now expect the EU to review the PMOI’s status following the decision by a British court and lawmakers. ’I think it would be strange if they did not follow our lead,’ Lord Steven Bassam said.