(AFP) An exiled Iranian opposition group said Friday that it would hold a demonstration in central Paris at the weekend after a French court overturned a police ban on the event.
The National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), the de facto political wing of the People’s Mujahedin (MEK) group outlawed by Tehran, said it would hold the protest on Saturday on Place Vauban in central Paris.
Paris police had angered the group last week by saying the rally had been banned because of the risk of tensions with other Iranian factions and the danger of an attack.
But the Paris administrative court ruled the police ban was “a serious and manifestly illegal attack on the freedom to demonstrate.”
