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Siege on Camp Ashraf intensifies, entry of food and fuel prevented
Saturday, 20 February 2010
NCRI - While agents of the clerical regime’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security are being dispatched to Camp Ashraf under the cover of family members of Ashraf residents, the Iraqi committee responsible for suppression of the residents, under the instructions of Nouri al-Maliki, has intensified cruel and inhumane siege on Ashraf. [more...]
USCCAR: U. S. , UNAMI must intervene to end inhumane siege of Ashraf
Friday, 19 February 2010
PRNewswire-USNewswire, Washington, February 18, 2010 -- Seven months after the Iraqi forces’ deadly and unprovoked assault on the defenseless residents of Camp Ashraf, members of Iran’s main opposition People’s Mojahedin of Iran (PMOI/MEK), the continued inhumane and unlawful siege of the camp has put the lives of hundreds of its residents in great peril. [more...]
UN Secretary General reports failure of the plan for relocation of Ashraf residents from Ashraf
Friday, 19 February 2010
UNAMI in conjunction with other United Nations agencies has continued to conduct regular monitoring activities concerning the situation between the Government of Iraq and the People’s Mujahedin of Iran (PMOI) at Camp Ashraf in Diyala Governorate. [more...]
EU reminds Iraq to act "in full accordance with intentional law" with regard to Camp Ashraf
Thursday, 21 January 2010
NCRI - In a debate on "Situation in Iraq," the EU's new foreign affairs chief, Catherine Ashton, told the European Parliament session in Strasbourg on Tuesday that the European Union has "consistently and repeatedly" reminded Iraqi government to manage the issue of Camp Ashraf "in full accordance with international law and without any violence." [more...]
Iraqi government committee preventing entry of fuel to Ashraf
Monday, 18 January 2010
NCRI - Over the past three months, the Iraqi committee at the Prime Minister’s Office tasked with suppression of Camp Ashraf residents has prevented entry of fuel supplies to the Camp. This inhumane siege has triggered numerous difficulties for the residents particularly in the cold winter months. [more...]
131 US Lawmakers urge Obama to halt relocation of Iranian dissidents in Iraq
Saturday, 19 December 2009
NCRI - US lawmakers urged President Barack Obama on December 15 to stop the Iraqi government's plan to relocate Ashraf residents within the country by force. [more...]
Congresswoman Jackson Lee objects to Iraqi plan for displacement of Camp Ashraf residents
Saturday, 19 December 2009
I call upon Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki to ensure that the rights of the Camp’s residents are upheld. If the Iraqi government cannot protect the residents of Camp Ashraf, the United States must intervene directly to prevent potential human rights abuses and death. [more...]
U.S. Congressman Ted Poe: Iraq should respect the fundamental rights of the residents of Camp Ashraf
Saturday, 19 December 2009
Prime Minister Al-Maliki should stand by repeated and written assurances he has given to the United States and the United Nations to respect the fundamental rights of the residents of Ashraf. These are “protected persons” under the Fourth Geneva Convention. President Obama should honor the U.S. government’s repeated promises to protect these people. [more...]
US Congressman Lincoln Diaz-Balart urges Iraq not to forcibly displace Camp Ashraf residents
Saturday, 19 December 2009
I call on the Iraqi government to keep its promise to the United States and uphold its obligations under international law. Attempting to mollify the tyrannical, illegitimate Iranian regime at the expense of these pro-democracy activists would be a tragic mistake. I call on the Iraqi government to ensure the protection that these exiles were promised and to which they are entitled under international law. [more...]
Committee in charge of Ashraf suppression insists on relocation of residents
Tuesday, 15 December 2009
Despite distribution of pamphlets, and constant invitations on loudspeakers by Iraqi officials in Ashraf’s streets and in the presence of some 50 reporters, videographers, and photographers from various news agencies around the world, not even one resident expressed willingness to leave Ashraf [more...]
Bombing plot near location of reporters intending to visit Camp Ashraf
Tuesday, 15 December 2009
NCRI - As the Iranian people’s uprising rings the death knell of the religious fascism ruling Iran, the clerical regime has intensified pressures on the Iraqi government to forcibly displace residents of Camp Ashraf. [more...]
UNAMI calls for continued consultations on Camp Ashraf
Tuesday, 15 December 2009
Baghdad - At different meetings with representatives of the Government of Iraq and with representatives of the diplomatic community in Baghdad, UNAMI has continued to promote further consultations concerning the future of the residents of Camp Ashraf. [more...]
Iraq: MPs warn about forcible relocation of Camp Ashraf residents
Monday, 14 December 2009
NCRI - 24 members of the Iraqi Parliament from various political blocks have condemned pressures exerted on Ashraf residents by the Iraqi government. In a statement, the MPs noted that Ashraf residents are considered “protected persons” in accordance with international conventions and thus any form of persecution against them, including involuntary relocation, would be deemed a war crime. [more...]
Iraqi jurists demand UN to urgently intervene to prevent relocation of Camp Ashraf residents
Monday, 14 December 2009
NCRI - The Association of Independent Iraqi Jurists, comprised of 12,000 jurists and lawyers, wrote a letter to the UN Secretary General envoy in Iraq, demanding urgent intervention to prevent the forcible relocation of Ashraf residents and avert a humanitarian catastrophe. [more...]
Siege on Camp Ashraf intensifies, entry of food, medicine and doctors barred
Monday, 14 December 2009
The Iranian regime, simultaneous with the nationwide uprising in Iran, has heightened its pressure on Iraqi government to conspire against residents of Camp Ashraf. The National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) had already warned about this in its statement on December 10 concerning remarks by Iraqi Prime Minister on forcible displacement of Camp Ashraf residents. [more...]
Iranian opposition group supporters in Iraq must not be forcibly evicted
Friday, 11 December 2009
The Iraqi authorities must not forcibly relocate about 3,400 members of an Iranian opposition group from a settlement north of Baghdad where they have lived since the mid-1980's, Amnesty International said on Friday. [more...]
Iranian exile group under new pressure in Iraq
Friday, 11 December 2009
Iraq announced plans Thursday to move members of an Iranian opposition group to a former desert detention camp in a sharp escalation of pressure on a faction that poses complications for both Baghdad and Washington. [more...]
Al-Maliki's call for displacement of Camp Ashraf residents; unlawful, kowtowing to Tehran
Thursday, 10 December 2009
NCRI - The Iranian Resistance denounced remarks by Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, concerning “Transfer of Camp Ashraf residents to Nuqrat al-Salman” which was described by him as a “step towards expelling them (from Iraq),” as unlawful and disgraceful kowtowing to orders of the religious fascism ruling Iran in the midst of nationwide uprising in Iran. [more...]
Iranian group: health care blocked at Iraq camp
Saturday, 05 December 2009
BAGHDAD — Members of an Iranian opposition group claimed Friday that Iraqi authorities are limiting their access to outside health care at a camp in northern Iraq where they have been under watch since the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003. [more...]
Euro MPs welcome Spanish court decision to investigate crimes against residents of Ashraf
Thursday, 03 December 2009
Friends of a Free Iran Intergroup in the European Parliament which consists of a large number of MEPs from various political tendencies, welcomes the decision of the Central Investigative Court, Number 4, of the National Court of Spain, on 26 November 2009, to investigate the crimes committed on 28 and 29 July against residents of Ashraf Camp, home to 3,400 members of the Iranian opposition movement, People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran. [more...]
Spanish judge mulls probe of Iraq refugee camp massacre
Thursday, 03 December 2009
Agence France Presse, December 1 - A top Spanish judge is considering launching a probe into a raid by Iraqi police and soldiers on a camp for Iranian refugees in July that killed 11 people, according to a court document released Tuesday. [more...]
Spain might probe Iranian killings in Iraq
Thursday, 03 December 2009
AP, December 2 — A Spanish judge has asked Iraq if it is investigating a melee in which Iraqi security forces are accused of killing 11 members of an Iranian exile group — a first step toward a possible probe by the judge himself. [more...]
Spanish Court: Residents of Ashraf are under protection of Geneva Convention
Monday, 30 November 2009
On 26 November, the Central Investigative Court, Number 4, of the National Court of Spain, in a decision declared its competence, under the principles of universal jurisdiction established in the Geneva Convention, to investigate the crimes committed on 28 and 29 July against residents of Ashraf Camp, home to 3,400 members of the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran. [more...]
Iraqi forces prevent entry of medicine and food to Camp Ashraf
Wednesday, 25 November 2009
NCRI - As cruel and inhuman siege of Camp Ashraf continues to intensify, the Iraqi forces on Tuesday morning prevented entry of a vehicle carrying essential medicine for the residents of Ashraf, especially for those wounded in July attack and seriously ill. [more...]
Top UN envoy concerned over conditions in Iraqi camp
Wednesday, 28 October 2009
he top United Nations envoy to Iraq has expressed his concerns over the humanitarian situation in a camp north of Baghdad, housing thousands of Iranian dissidents. Some 3,400 members of the People’s Mojahedeen Organization of Iran (PMOI), also known as Mujahedin-e Khalq, live in Camp Ashraf in Iraq’s Diyala province. [more...]
UNAMI continued concern over the humanitarian situation at Camp Ashraf
Wednesday, 28 October 2009
During his recent meeting with representatives of the diplomatic community in Baghdad, the Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary General-for Iraq (SRSG) Ad Melkert expressed continued concern over the humanitarian situation at Camp Ashraf. He confirmed UNAMI's commitment for the duration of this critical period to monitor the situation in the Camp on daily basis. [more...]
Account of attack on Camp Ashraf in Iraq
Sunday, 25 October 2009
By: Jamshid Karegarfar, ASHRAF, Iraq.
Two-and-a-half months ago, I was living the day-to-day peaceful life of a resident of Camp Ashraf in Iraq. It's a place you probably never heard of. It's about 60 miles north of Baghdad and is home to some 3,500 Iranian dissidents - exiles like me who want nothing better than to return to Iran when it is free of the mullahs who oppress the people, preach hatred and export terrorism.
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All 36 Camp Ashraf residents released but OMCT remains concerned about the situation in Camp Ashraf
Saturday, 17 October 2009
The World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) welcomes the release of the 36 Camp Ashraf residents, who were arrested and allegedly tortured and ill-treated during their detention following the raid by the Iraqi security forces on the Camp on 28 July 2009. However, OMCT repeats its call upon the United States (US) authorities and the United Nations (UN) to take effective measures to protect all Camp Ashraf residents. [more...]
Deploring the ongoing violence by Iraqi security forces against the residents of Camp Ashraf in Iraq
Tuesday, 13 October 2009
Whereas the United States Embassy Statement on Transfer of Security Responsibility for Camp Ashraf of December 28, 2008, states that, ‘The Government of Iraq has provided the US Government written assurances of humane treatment of the Camp Ashraf residents in accordance with Iraq’s Constitution, laws and international obligations.’ [more...]
Iraq frees 36 Iranian dissidents taken in deadly raid
Wednesday, 7 October 2009
Iraqi authorities have released 36 Iranian dissidents who had been imprisoned for months, were on hunger strike for weeks and also lately refused water, a spokesman for the prisoners said on Wednesday. [more...]
Iranian opposition detainees freed in Iraq
Wednesday, 7 October 2009
A group of 36 Iranian opposition members were returned Wednesday to an exile camp in northern Iraq after nearly three months in Iraqi custody and despite an ongoing effort to expel them, a government spokesman said. [more...]
36 PMOI hostages RELEASED on 72nd day of hunger strike
Wednesday, 7 October 2009
On the seventy-second day of their hunger strike and seventh day of dry hunger strike, 36 PMOI hunger strikers who have been taken hostage in Iraq returned triumphantly to Camp Ashraf. A number of them went into coma yesterday morning and they were taken to hospital by prison guards. Upon their arrival, they were immediately taken to Ashraf medical center to rest and to be looked after due to their critical condition and the injuries suffered from gunshots and beatings during the July 28 and 29 attacks. Most of them were on the verge of death. [more...]