PMOI members arrested in France in June 2003
In June 2003, police arrested 167 people in the Paris suburb of Auvers-sur-Oise where the MKO is based. Of those arrested, 17 were placed under formal investigation, including Maryam Rajavi, the leader of the MKO’s political wing on suspicion of”associating with wrongdoers in relation with a terrorist undertaking”.