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 which is in official relations with the World Health Organization (WHO) and was founded in 1947 endeavors to achieve the highest international standards in preserving medical ethics, and health care for all people in the world. The WMA published the following press release in its website on November 10, 2014 concerning the health of Iranian dissidents in Camp Liberty, Iraq: The World Medical Association has expressed its extreme concern to the Iraqi Prime Minister about "worrying health conditions" in Camp Liberty, the former United States military installation in Baghdad, now being used to house the members of the People's Mujahedin of Iran who previously resided in Camp Ashraf.

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 during years living in Camp Ashraf and Camp Liberty passed away in a hospital in Tirana, Albania, after a major surgery.

Ms. Vanaie, a member of the National Council of Resistance (NCRI), was an official of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) who joined the organization 36 years ago in her struggle for freedom in Iran.

She was arrested twice between 1981 and 1986 and spent over four years in Tehran’s notorious Evin Prison and Ghezel Hessar Prison in the city of Karaj under torture.

Her older sister and her brother-in-law were executed in 1981 in the Diezelabad Prison in the city of Kermanshah.

During the anti-human medical blockade imposed by Iraqi agents against Camp Ashraf and Camp Liberty, she was suffering from cancer.

For the fifth consecutive month Iraqi forces refuse to give residents forklift trucks for carrying heavy loads

Many residents have developed severe orthopedic diseases due to carrying heavy loads

For the fifth consecutive month, the Iraqi forces refuse to give residents their own forklift trucks for their daily affairs. The residents are therefore obliged to carry heavy loads with their bare hands or on their backs. As a result of this anti-human measure, many residents have developed back and upper limb pain and severe orthopedic diseases.

MPs and Peers call for a firm response to Iranian regime's systematic human rights violations and demand protection for the Iranian refugees in Camp Liberty. 

In a cross party parliamentary conference on Tuesday, October 28, organised by the British Parliamentary Committee for Iran Freedom (BPCIF), MPs and Peers from both Houses discussed the deteriorating human rights situation in Iran, new wave of public hangings, acid attacks on women and the plight of Iranian refugees in Camp Liberty, Iraq.

Speakers at the conference included Lord Carlile of Berriew QC CBE, Mr Struan Stevenson, Chairman of EP Delegation for Relations with Iraq, Mr David Amess MP, Rt Hon David Jones MP, Rt Hon. Lord Dholakia, Mr Brian Binley MP, Lord Clarke of Hampstead CBE, Mr Mark Williams MP, Mr Mike Hancock MP, Lord Cotter, Ms Dowlat Nowrouzi, UK Representative of NCRI and Malcolm Fowler, member of the Law Society.

During last week, thousands of people defied suppressive security measures by the regime's security forces to take part in demonstrations in various cities of Iran, in particular in Tehran, to protest against the recent wave of acid attacks against Iranian women that have taken over 25 victims. The protesters accused state sponsored security organs of orchestrating these vicious attacks, which follows discussion by the Iranian parliament of a new bill to confront the so called “mal-veiling”.