The Daily TelegraphThursday, 15 February 2007 By Joshua Rozenberg, Legal Editor (Excerpts)Diplomatic pressure should be targeted at isolating the president of Iran before further, fateful steps are contemplated, we argued in our leader columns this week. Quite right. But what prospect is there of using the courts to undermine Mahmoud Ahmadinejad? … Irwin Cotler, a…
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Tehran’s deal to get PMOI extradited fails
Thursday, 18 January 2007Agence France Presse LONDON – Iran offered to cut off aid and support for the Lebanese Shiite militia Hezbollah and the Palestinian group Hamas, and promised full transparency on its nuclear program in a secret letter to the United States soon after the 2003 invasion of Iraq, the British media reported. According…
European Court Annuls EU “Decision” To Label People’s Mojahedin Of Iran As A Terror Group
EU Lawmakers Urge EU To Take Iranian Grp Off Blacklist
Associated PressDecember 20, 2006BRUSSELS (AP)–Some European Union lawmakers and an exiled Iranian resistance movement Wednesday urged the E.U. and the U.S. to remove the Paris-based group quickly from their lists of terrorist organizations. “Something must be done immediately to remove the People’s Mujahadeen of Iran from all terror lists,” said Struan Stevenson, a Conservative member…
European Court Says Exiled Iranian Group Was Unfairly Labeled
THe New York TimesDecember 13, 2006By CRAIG S. SMITHPARIS, Dec. 12 — Europe’s second highest court on Tuesday annulled a European Union decision that had frozen the funds of an exiled Iranian opposition group and called into question the group’s label as a terrorist organization. The ruling by the European Court of First Instance was…