Camp Liberty Updates
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Amnesty International calls for prompt, independent investigation into Camp Liberty rocket attack
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL PUBLIC STATEMENT 6 July 2016 Index: MDE 14/4408/2016 Camp Liberty residents must be protected from attacks, said Amnesty International as it called for an independent, impartial and prompt investigation into the 4 July rocket attack on the camp, which is home to Iranian exiles.
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U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee passes resolution on Camp Liberty
The United States House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee on Wednesday unanimously approved and referred to the House Floor a bipartisan resolution calling for “safety and security” of the members of the main Iranian opposition group living in Camp Liberty, Iraq. It was the first resolution of its kind. …
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Camp Liberty Resident Fatemeh Abbasi passed away
Ms. Fatemeh Abbasi, an elderly mother in Camp Liberty, Iraq, who was active with the Iranian Resistance for the past 34 years, on Tuesday lost her life in the camp’s clinic. Ms. Abbasi, 77, had been suffering from cancer and was not approved by doctors with the International Organization for…
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23 residents killed in attack on Camp Liberty in Iraq
At least 23 members of the main Iranian opposition group, the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran, PMOI (Mujahedin-e Khalq, MEK), were killed on Thursday, October 29, 2015, in a missile attack on Camp Liberty in Iraq. At least one of the Camp Liberty residents who was killed was a woman.
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British MPs condemn the deadly missile attack on Camp Liberty
British MPs condemn the deadly missile attack on Camp Liberty resulting in death of 20 camp residents. We were just informed that there was yet another rocket attack on Camp Liberty, where members of Iran’s democratic opposition, the PMOI, were forced to move in 2012 after assurances of protection by…
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IRAQ: Depriving Iranian dissidents of basic needs enters third week
Iraqi forces stationed in Camp Liberty, which houses thousands of members of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) in Iraq, On Monday and Tuesday, June 29 and 30, 2015 continued refusing to allow delivery of basic necessities purchased by the residents which have been held at the camp entrance…
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Iraqi agents continue hindering Camp Liberty Iranians free access to medical care
The cruel medical blockade on Camp Liberty and hampering access of residents to medical services continues. On 15 December 2014, while all coordination for transfer of five patients to hospital had been made, in the last minutes and for no reason, the Iraqi agents prevented the patients’ departure and thus…
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British MPs warn about Iranian regime’s meddling in Camp Liberty
The Iranian regime’s meddling in Camp Liberty will set the stage for another deadly attack on its 3,000 residents, the British Parliamentary Committee for Iran Freedom has warned. The alert comes after remarks by Iraq’s minister of Human Rights, Mahdi al-Bayati, who said the UN-protected Iranian dissidents in the camp…
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World Medical Association Concerned Over Iranians in Camp Liberty, Iraq
The World Medical Association has expressed its extreme concern about “worrying health conditions” of the Iranian dissidents in Camp Liberty, Iraq, and has called on Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi to take immediate action to ensure the camp’s residents full access to adequate health care facilities. The Paris based WMA…
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Loss of life due to Iraq’s medical blockade against Iranian opposition reaches 22
With the passing away of another Iranian opposition official in Albania on Wednesday (November 5, 2014) the number of lives lost due to the medical blockade imposed on Ashraf and Liberty reaches twenty-two. Ms. Farideh Vanaie, 51, who had been deprived of free access to medical service by Iraqi agents…