A US diplomatic cable dated February 22, 2008 and released by WikiLeaks states that "the main arrested politicians were generally viewed as moderates, who had contacts with the Embassy", that "When we met them in the spring in 2007, the tone of their discourse was moderate, without any hints of extremism, and they had reputation of being leftist-Islamist" and that "The Moroccan Association of Human Rights (AMDH), a far-left human rights NGO that traditionally has had cool relations with Islamist political parties, criticized the GOM's [Government of Morocco] arrest of the politicians, calling for their release, and denouncing the banning of the Al-Badli Al-Hadari party".[2]