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AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE BAGHDAD — 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. The members of the People’s Mujahedeen, an exiled opposition group, were seized during a raid on Camp Ashraf,…

ASSOCIATED PRESS BAGHDAD – 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. The men were returned to Camp Ashraf, where nearly 3,500 members of the People’s Mujahedeen…

 DPA Baghdad – Iraqi authorities on Wednesday freed 36 members of an Iranian opposition group detained during July clashes between Iraqi security forces and members of the group. The detainees were taken into custody during clashes between members of the People’s Mujahedin of Iran (PMOI) and Iraqi security forces entering the group’s base at Camp…

Miami Herald – McClatchy News Service Despite a judge’s order to free 36 Iranian dissidents, Iraqi security officials forcibly transferred them to a prison in southern Iraq. BAGHDAD — Iraqi security officials beat and forcibly transferred 36 members of an Iranian dissident group to a remote southern prison despite an Iraqi judge’s orders to free…

AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE STRASBOURG, September 30, 2009 (AFP) – Council of Europe parliament members on Wednesday called on the United Nations and the United States to guarantee the safety of Iranian dissidents at a camp in Iraq following clashes in July. Iraqi forces launched a deadly raid on Camp Ashraf, in Diyala province near the…