Shame on Martin Kobler and the German Embassy in Iraq for one month delay in transferring engineer Hamid Rabi, holder of refugee passport and permanent residency in Germany for emergency treatment
NCRI – Hamid Rabi, a member of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK), 51, who was severely wounded during the February 9 rocket attack on Camp Liberty, died in a Baghdad hospital around 10 PM local time on Wednesday, March 13.
During past month he was suffering excruciating pain and went through several surgical operations. He is the 8th casualty of rocket attack against Camp Liberty.
He was severely injured at his abdomen, spine, and joints. He was completely numbed from waist down. Physicians had removed his lien that was shattered due to being hit by shrapnels.
Given the critical condition of Hamid Rabi and serious threat facing his life, the Iranian Resistance had repeatedly requested from the UN, the UNHCR, and particularly the World Health Organization (WHO) to immediately transfer him to Germany, the country from which he had a refuge passport and permanent residency.
Hamid Rabi personally raised this issue with the officials of WHO on February 10. German dignitaries raised the issue of critical condition of Hamid Rabi with the Foreign Ministry and Interior Ministry officials of Germany on March 9 and requested his immediate transfer to Germany.
Picture of his passport with the stamp of permanent residency was released by the Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran on March 10, 2013. But negligence and deliberate delays in urgent transfer of the wounded to Germany led to his martyrdom. Placing an extension stamp on the victim’s passport or issuing entry permit to Germany during last month would have saved his life.
Shame on Martin Kobler and his wife, the German Ambassador in Baghdad heaped praise on the criminal government of Nouri-al-Maliki that is the puppet of the mullahs ruling in Iran. In an attempt to whitewash his blood stained hands, in a dreadful propaganda gesture Kobler had declared that he would investigate the rocket attack.
Mansour Koufe’i, another PMOI member and Camp Liberty resident, lost his life at the Iraqi clinic in Camp Liberty due to lack of medical attention on the day before. This was subsequent to vomiting nearly three litters of blood.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
March 13, 2013