PMOI suppoerters celeberate Judgement of Court in Luxumburgh

PMOI supporters in one instance of many support judgment of the court:

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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - A European Union court on Thursday annulled a new move by the bloc to freeze the assets of an exiled Iranian opposition group in the latest in a string of legal setbacks to its blacklist of suspected terrorist groups.

The European Court of First Instance already threw out last month a 2007 move to freeze the assets of People's Mujahideen Organisation of Iran (PMOI), the group which exposed Iran's covert nuclear programme in 2002.

However the judgement had no practical consequences as it did not cover a subsequent EU decision in July of this year to put the same group on a revised blacklist.

A new ruling from the court said that decision also breached the PMOI's right of self-defence because it did not inform the group of new information on it obtained by France.

"Consequently the court annuls the funds-freezing decision," the statement said, adding that no such decision should be based on information that a country was not ready to make available to the court.

An EU spokesman said the EU Council -- the body responsible for decisions by the 27 member states about the blacklist -- would study the ruling and decide whether to appeal or not.

The PMOI has accused the European Union -- which has so far led unsuccessful efforts to persuade Iran to curb its nuclear

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