The European Court of Justice reversed a European Union (EU) decision that in 2002 froze the funds of People's Holy Warriors, an exiled Iranian opposition group. The court ruling was based on the decision that the EU had not provided sufficient reasons to freeze the organization’s assets and did not provide a fair hearing. This decision could be encouraging for the groups whose assets are frozen in the United States. The New York Times covered this story. "All restrictions resulting from the terror tag should be removed from the Iranian resistance immediately," the group’s leader, Maryam Rajavi, said during a visit to the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France. She said that the ruling proved that her organization was a legitimate resistance movement rather than a terrorist group.