Statement of Lawyers on MEK /French Court

William Bourdoon May 13, 2011

Statement of Lawyers

Anti-terror examining magistrate pronounced a dismissal of the terrorism charges and financing of terrorism regarding 24 persons indicted in the case against the Iranian opponents. According to the non-suit, no more charges are held against any inductee. The defense counsels are delighted about this decision and underline that it would have been necessary to end in this conclusion much earlier.

From the beginning of the indictments on June 17th, 2003, lawyers insisted on the total vacuity of this file and the manipulations of the French secret services declared that it resulted from a commercial bargaining and from a political accommodation with the mullahs’ regime. In diverse stages, the defense presented indisputable proofs which left no doubt on the nature of this file.

We insisted from the beginning on the fact that there is no proof against our clients in this file. It is only about disinformation spread by the mullahs with the help of their informers. The lawyers found irrefutable signs leading to these informers of the regime.

We asked repeatedly for a trial, because we were convinced that it would lead to a trial of the Iranian regime and his associates in France.

We also underlined that the Resistance against the mullahs’ dictatorship is a legitimate right of the Iranian people and that the charges of terrorism against our clients to resist a terrorist and repressive regime was against an international law collectively recognized, which is the legitimate right to resist tyranny. Today, we finally acknowledge that these charges find their source within the list of the terrorist organizations of the European Union on which was placed the People’s Mujahidin Organization of Iran (PMOI) per the request of Tehran’s regime. The PMOI was removed from this list in January, 2009 further to the decisions of the European Court of Justice.

What we repeated during these eight years is now confirmed. Examining magistrate is now admitting that the action of the Iranian opposition joins within the framework of the legitimate right to resist dictatorship.

Because the international law acknowledges the right to resist for the freedom of every individual. It has been a great dishonor for France to sue Resistance fighters in the terrorism of State, which is the Mullahs’ one.

Therefore, the decision of the examining magistrate is only rehabilitating France.

The charges brought afterward served only to justify and drag an empty case.

This decision, if it is essential, must be followed as quickly as possible by a second non-suit of the charges of the 9 persons who remain indicted for financial offenses.

Because of this orchestrated case, our clients were unfairly assailed on various accusations. These accusations only served to offer legitimacy to the mullahs’ regime which wanted to demonize its democratic opposition. This file had severe and fatal consequences for our clients. That is why we ask that fast decisions are taken to restore the seized properties of our clients, during the police operation in Auvers-sur-Oise back in 2003.