Camp Ashraf hostages are under interrogation in Maliki’s “Dirty Division’s” solitary confinement

NCRI- According to credible reports from within the clerical regime, the seven Ashraf hostages abducted in Ashraf by Iraqi forces on September 1st are still held in Maliki’s Dirty Division (Golden Division) prison near Baghdad Airport. They are under repeated interrogation and persecution by intelligence officers of this division.

To intensify pressures on the hostages, henchmen have separated them from each other and are keeping them in separate cells. The Iraqi government is constantly threatening the hostages that it will extradite them to the religious fascism ruling Iran.

Presence of these hostages in this division is being kept top secret and very limited people are informed about it. Maliki has ordered commanders of this division and all those informed of situation of the hostages to state that they have no information on their conditions or place of detention. Maliki government’s officials have been briefed to respond to all international parties that they have nothing to do with the issue of hostages.

Iranian Resistance calls for immediate intervention by the U.S. government and the United Nations to secure swift release of the hostages. They are all ‘protected persons’ by the Fourth Geneva Convention and refugees under international protection with United States and United Nations bearing direct responsibility for their safety and security.

Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran

September 17, 20