Key facts
- Paris police arrested 20 people during a demonstration.
- Hundreds of demonstrators gathered in Paris to protest political executions in Iran.
- French police had banned the rally due to a risk of clashes.
- A Paris court upheld the ban on the rally.
- The NCRI, the political arm of the People's Mujahideen Organization of Iran, organized the event.
Paris police arrested 20 people on Saturday as hundreds of demonstrators gathered in defiance of a ban on a rally organized by the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI). The NCRI, the political arm of the People's Mujahideen Organization of Iran, had planned to hold the rally at Place Vauban near the Les Invalides monument.