Sunday, June 29, 2008

Human Rights: Iranian opposition supporters protest ban on armed group

More than 70,000 supporters of Iran's opposition protested near Paris on Saturday, urging the international community to remove bans on the country's armed opposition group, organisers said.

The protest came just days after Britain's decision to lift its ban on the People's Mojehedin Organisation of Iran (PMOI), a move Iran denounced as a "disgrace", AFP reported.

The European Union and the United States still have the PMOI listed as a terrorist organisation.

Delegations of Iranian PMOI supporters from Germany, Australia, Belgium, Canada, the United States, Britain, Iraq and Jordan took part in the assembly in a hall in the Villepinte suburb of Paris, according to organisers.

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