Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, President-elect of the Iranian Resistance participated in two parliamentary-legal sessions with the presence of vice president of European Parliament and groups of parliaments of other European countries including Britain, Italy and France as well as Europe’s most prominent jurists in the main headquarters of the European Parliament in Brussels on Tuesday.
In the Brussels sessions, formation of the European Committee of ” In search of Justice to remove PMOI from the terrorist list” headed by Dr. Alejo Vidal-Quadras, Vice President of the European Parliament, and comprising of members of parliaments and the most prominent European Jurists and political personalities. Four exquisite legal opinions were introduced regarding illegality of European Union’s Council of Minister’s decision to maintain the PMOI in the list.
Dr. Alejo Vidal-Quadras, Vice President of the European Parliament announced formation of Committee of “In search of Justice to remove PMOI from the terrorist list” and said: “We shall set up an extensive campaign in Brussels and other European Countries. The People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran must not be left in the list. As a friend of France, I say that the European Union’s Presidency must intervene and end this injustice.”
Struan Stevenson, Vice President of Group of the European People’s Party-European Democrats, Co-Chair of the Friends of a Free Iran from U.K., said: “More than 2,000 Members of parliament have gathered in the Europeans Committee of ” In search of Justice”; we support the PMOI, we agree with all programs and deeds of the PMOI and the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI); then put me and us in the list too. The other issue is security and protection of 3500 PMOI members in Ashraf City that the Iranian regime is conspiring to annihilate their protection. Allowing such a work could lead to a human catastrophe. The US must continue protection of Ashraf.”
Mrs. Maryam Rajavi congratulated formation of the “Committee in Search of Justice to remove PMOI from the terrorist list” and said: “I have come today to warn the European Union’s leaders against the consequences of illegal decision of keeping the PMOI in the terrorist list. The clerical regime uses this label for justification of executions in Iran and pressuring the Iraqi government to exert more pressure on 3500 PMOI members residing in Ashraf in Iraq. This will lead to a human tragedy that the European Union is also responsible for it.
Mrs. Rajavi called the new IAEA report on Iran a warning to the international community and emphasized that the clerical regime is not able to change its behavior, because any reform leads to overthrow of the religious fascism; there is only one solution ;Democratic Change by the Iranian people and resistance
Professor Antonio Kessez, Italian famous jurist who directed the International Criminal Tribunal for Yugoslavia, presented his theory and said: False accusation of a political organization of terrorism charge is a heavy and paralyzing allegation and everybody who believes in democracy and human rights must stand against such a cruel allegation; the problem of Ashraf City is not separate of this outrageous designation, because if Ashraf residents are in danger is because of this designation, the United States must keep protecting them.
The other speakers were:
Mr. Alain Vivien, former Consulting Minister in French government
Mr. Paulo Casaca, Member of the European Parliament and the Co-Chair of the Friends of a Free Iran
Mr. Carlo Ciccioli, deputy chairman of the social affairs commission of Italy’s parliament
Prof. Henk de Haan, former chairman of Dutch Parliament’s Foreign Relation’s Commission and Chairman of the Dutch Group of Friends of a Free Iran
Mr. David Kilgore, former Canadian minister of Asian-Pacific Affairs and one of the most prominent Canada’s political and human rights figures
Mario Stasi, French jurist, former president of Paris Bar Association
Mrs. Elizabetta Zamparutti, Italian MP from Radical Party
Mrs. Rajavi also participated in another gathering which was held for presentation of the legal opinions of a number of most prominent European lawyers regarding discomfit of European Union’s Council of Ministers’ decision. This session was headed by the French jurist Jean-Pierre Spitzer
The speakers of this session were:
Mr. David Vaughn, prominent British jurist
Professor Antonio Kessez, Italian famous jurist
Mrs. Claire Meskin, the prominent lawyer and Britain’s Courts’ judge
Jean-Pierre Spitzer, French prominent lawyer
William Bourdon, French famous lawyer
Lord Tony Clark, the member of the House of Lords and former Leader of the British Labor Party
Roger Gale, British MP and former Vice Chairman of Conservative party.
Sid Ahmed Ghozali, former prime minister of Algeria
Yves Bonnet, former Chief of the French Counter-terrorism Organization (DST(
Lord Cutter, prominent member of the British House of Lords