Victory of justice and Resistance
June 17th case will no longer be prosecuted.June 17th case will no longer be prosecuted.
Justice prevailed on the anniversary of the June 17, 2003 French police raid on the headquarters of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) in Auvers-sur-Oise and homes of a number of members, supporters and families of the Iranian Resistance.
The French judiciary and the anti-terrorism investigative magistrate today handed down an official order to stop prosecution of terrorism and terrorism financing charges against NCRI Maryam Rajavi and 23 officials, members and supporters of the Resistance.
The June 17 case was opened 10 years ago as an incentive to moderate the theocratic regime ruling Iran when Mohammad Khatami was president. The terrorist label against the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) was cited as justification for opening this case.
Since a decade ago, most prominent jurists, lawyers, human rights advocates and members of parliament in France have reiterated that this dossier against Iranian legitimate Resistance was completely political from the outset and was formed aimed at appeasing and dealing with the religious fascism ruling Iran, lacking any criminal substance. Successive evidences and courts during the past 8 years proved the righteousness of the Iranian Resistance, and it became evident that the content of the dossier has been nothing but the lies fabricated by the Iranian regime’s Ministry of Intelligence and its agents abroad, and the assertions of “forcible witnesses” in direct cooperation of mullahs’ Intelligence with the supportive services.
Very prominent French and international jurists underscored from the beginning that resistance against mullahs’ dictatorship is the legitimate right of the Iranian people, and terrorist label and various false accusations against the Resistance is only an embarrassment and a brand in the history of Judiciary of France, a country that is still righteously proud of its resistance in the face of Hitler fascism. Therefore, the judge’s decision for issuing the verdict for cessation of prosecution is rehabilitation to the French Judiciary and Justice.
The anti-terrorism Pubic Prosecutor has acknowledged that the main origin for the accusations against the Iranian Resistance and the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran was in fact the EU terror list in which the PMOI was included at the behest of the Iranian regime. In the following years, to avoid an empty file and for procrastination, a series of other fake allegations were added to the June 17th dossier; however, it proved to be futile.
Maryam Rajavi emphasized that the decision to dismiss this case is a clear testament to the utter failure of a decade-long campaign by the Iranian regime, its agents and witnesses to demonize and slander the Iranian Resistance and its symbols through fabrication, demonization and misinformation.
She congratulated the Iranian people and Resistance, in particular the residents of Camp Ashraf, and thanked supporters of the Iranian Resistance across the world, jurists and lawyers, as well as political, social and religious dignitaries in France and elsewhere, for standing with the Iranian people and the Resistance throughout the past 10 years.
Maryam Rajavi added that the decision by the French Judiciary made it abundantly clear that labeling the Iranian Resistance as terrorist by any world power is prompted by the policy of appeasement and only has only served to prolong the rule of the religious dictatorship ruling Iran.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
May 12, 2011
